Dinner Quote by Isabella Beeton

What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon…

— Isabella Beeton

Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households.…

— Charles de Lint

Most families are dysfunctional.

— Art Malik

Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most menacing and…

— Martyn

The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's…

— Michael Pollan

“Most people avoid confronting family issues because they can't see a way to change the relationships they find so frustrating. The frustration leads them,…

— Monica McGoldrick

When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of…

— Martha Stewart

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

— Viggo Mortensen

Even sometimes, when you're at home with the family, you need a break from them, really.

— Fabolous

We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

— Eli Attie

“Home-life, when one always stays at home, is necessarily narrowing. That is one reason why so many women are petty and unthoughtful of any…

— Lucy Larcom

This is the kind of upbringing we had instead of sitting in front of a damn television set all day long and never answering…

— Ernest Borgnine