Family Disputes Quotes

It's impossible for a couple to bring up two children without having lots and lots of arguments.

You know, I'm a father. I'm a brother. I'm a son. And I'm a grandfather. So many times I have to be the intermediary, the person to referee and help solve disputes and to protect and to guide.

Airing the family's laundry can make people upset.

Sometimes little brothers and big brothers get into it.

... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.

Naturally, Brie and I bicker, like, every 10 minutes about everything in life.

Advice: Don’t wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you’re related to — gets shot before you work it out.

It seemed that my brother and I were always fighting in the back seat, and there was never any real reason for it.

I vividly remember throwing a bowl of porridge at my husband Rayne once when he defended the children instead of me - the patch on the ceiling stayed for years.

I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.

My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

The violence complained of would without question have constituted a battery if the subject of it had not been the defendant's wife …. It will be observed that the ground upon which we have put this decision is not that the husband has the right to whip his wife much or little; but that we will not interfere with family government in trifling cases… We will not inflict upon society the greater evil of raising the curtain upon domestic privacy, to punish the lesser evil of trifling violence.

My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes.

Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?

I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.

It's always tough when you're fighting with your husband on the court.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

I always refused to give in if there was some argument with my father. Whether it was true or not, I refused to admit it and so often I would - well, tell lies, perhaps. I would either do that or change the story. Particularly if I felt that my father was being unjust, then I was very strongly motivated to not accept his ruling.

Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

Just because your wife schmoozes with somebody too much, you can't go throwing the kids out with the bath water! And that's the way the law's tied up right now.