Quotes About Acceptance

When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

we are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who are in it are our family.

It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

There was a lot of creative energy that I had, that I feel wasn't understood, and I think that whole world for me felt like another family, another place where I could feel heard.

My family do not think I'm special - not one, one bit.

I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.

No family is perfect, and that's true. None of us are.

I want a country where citizens like you and your family are just as welcome as anyone else.

Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.

I'm sorry that the family I was given has created so much chaos in the family I've chosen.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

And more so now, since having a family - I don't seek out any other acceptance.

I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.

It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.