Family Rift Quotes & Sayings

The family stayed put for a few years, largely due to issues involving a contract with a demon, an open dimensional rift, and preschool, — Seanan McGuire

Family myths are cherished by the people who
however unwittingly
have brought them into being. In my own situation, what my father was really saying to me during that last unfortunate phone call was that I had shattered our family's myth: the myth of a close and tight-knit family in which everyone was in complete agreement about everything, that is, in complete agreement with my father. I had violated one of the tenets of this myth in a way that was unforgivable to him. For that my punishment was to be expelled from the family. — Mark Sichel

We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s. — Robert Reich

In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister. — Princess Margaret