Quotes About Acceptance

If there's a perfect family out there, we're all happy for that family. But most families aren't perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty.

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

How I exist in this world is that you're in or you're out. You are family or you are the enemy.

As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.

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

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

You don't pick your family, you take what you're given and you make the best of it.

It's actually kind of nice to have a 'patchwork family.'

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.

Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.

My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.

I got born in the wrong family.

My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.

Vulnerability and me go hand and hand now. I try to put myself first so that I can take care of my family so I try not to fight vulnerability as much now.

Jello's Biafra kind of like my weird, retarded uncle. He's part of the family.