Extended family Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Download Open image ““A husband, a wife and some kids is not a family. It's a terribly vulnerable survival unit.”” — Kurt Vonnegut ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Extended family Family Marriage Support Survival
“You know the definition of a dysfunctional family, don't you? It's any family with more than one member in it.” — Sarah Pekkanen Copy Share Image
“In every family there is usually one member who is a source of trouble and worry.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Family is who you survive with when you need to survive - even if you do not like them.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The world is harsh and inconsiderate, and you can rely only on your family.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Sometimes family breakups are catastrophic, they can lead to decades of ill-feeling within the family unit.” — Joy Ellis Copy Share Image
“Family isn’t always who you’re born to. It’s who you’re with, who you love. Those families can be even stronger.” — Sara Raasch Copy Share Image
“The family is a vast project, so enormous and important, both for us personally and for the world at large, that it's worth putting… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“The reality is that for many of us family was as much the incubator of despair as the safe nurturing” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I visited the archeological site at the northern tip of Newfoundland. There is no question about it. It has been definitely determined that the… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
“The breakdown of the neighborhoods also meant the end of what was essentially an extended family…With the breakdown of the extended family, too much… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
My heart is filled with love for my new extended family - the billion-plus people in China who have shown me nothing but unconditional… — Stephon Marbury Copy Share Image
But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I come from a big extended family, so it's very normal to be around babies for us, but when it's your own, it's a… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
“As children, a great number of us were taught by our parents, carers, extended family members, and teachers, that showing any form of emotional… — Mateo Sol Copy Share Image
“God healed everything in my life from a non-curable disease, bad programming from child sexual abuse, father and mother wounds, bitterness, hatred, rage, rejection,… — Shelley Lubben Copy Share Image
Its almost Thanksgiving! A day when you get to hear your extended family use racial slurs for groups are not taking away their jobs. — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn't until my teens that I met and… — E.J. Bonilla Copy Share Image
Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from… — John Thorn Copy Share Image