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I came from a huge extended family of musicians.
I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
The entire unit of 'Saath Phere' is like an extended family for me.
What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.
No one in my family is musical, including extended family. I am like the black sheep.
I've been in and out of hospitals a lot in terms of family or extended family or myself.
You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.
The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.
Our extended family is an integral part of our daily lives and Connie and I welcome you with open arms.
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.
Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.
Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
I grew up in a small, rural community, where my extended family were mountain-folk type people, and some were very religious.
In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics.
I feel just an overwhelming sense of pride of being part of the family that Vichai built and the extended family of Leicester City.
It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.
My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.
There's no way to measure or properly express what a family like mine can mean. Mom, Dad, Cooper, Eli, extended family, you are the best.
Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.
My heart is filled with love for my new extended family - the billion-plus people in China who have shown me nothing but unconditional love.
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 very different experience for us.
Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously journeyed abroad to bond with our extended family.
I'm the only person in my entire extended family that plays an instrument or sings, really. Which is kind of weird. I don't know where I got it from.
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.
We believe the Queer community is a model for our global extended family, and together we have the power to create positive change for all of humanity.
My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.
You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.
There's a lot there to enlarge you. That's part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't fit into what is expected of you?
I can understand why immigrants would want to bring the rest of their extended family here, including older ones who will benefit from our health-care system.
I was born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous congregation started by my grandfather, and consisting almost entirely of my extended family.
I get asked, 'Who would you really like to work with?' I'm already working with them. Smart, talented, funny people, good musicians, an extended family, good friends.
The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.
No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.
Though my parents have seen me in all possible avatars, my extended family has been pretty excited since the time they've gotten to know that 'Manmarziyaan' is a story based in Amritsar.
I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am. I'm a full-blooded Brazilian, with an entire extended family of Brazilians, but I was born and raised in the U.S.
I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.
I was the only one silly enough to carry it on to the professional level, but I would say most of my family - and my extended family - are storytellers. And really, that's just what acting is.
There are elements of comedy that can be competitive and back stab-y, but one of the underreported sides is that we love each other and help each other, kind of like a messed up extended family.
We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard, and there were things I didn't want to talk about. But at the end I was a happy girl.
I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.
At lunchtime, our kitchen was like a mini restaurant: my grandmother and mother had to cook for as many as 25 people - extended family plus 10 employees. We ate a lot of cabbage and a lot of potatoes.
Growing up, I knew I was different. But I didn't know what it meant to be Aboriginal. I just knew that I had a really big, extended family. I was taught nothing about who we were or where we came from.
The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like... I make time to clean my house, to care for my pets, to visit my extended family, because those things are important to me. Same with helping others.
I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.
Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.