My heart is filled with love for my new extended family - the billion-plus people in China who have shown me nothing… — Stephon Marbury Copy Share Image
Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex… — Delia Ephron Copy Share Image
I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am. I'm a full-blooded Brazilian, with an entire… — Camila Mendes Copy Share Image
If organizations like Westboro were universally bad, they wouldn't exist. There had to be some draw, and at Westboro, there was a… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
What used to help us to cope with transience was stuff like, extended families all living in one place, or very strong… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Along with the trust issues, one of the hardest parts to deal with is the feeling of not being believed or supported,… — Erin Merryn 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… — E.J. Bonilla 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.… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“I hope you’ll learn that no matter how bad things become, there’s always light at the end of the tunnel. As long… — Marlies Adams Difante Copy Share Image
“The war had been started, the spark already ignited when he'd appeared on that battlefield in Israel. Michael stood there, leading the… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“Remember I spoke earlier of how there are three layers of abuse to this NPD? The first layer is our mother’s abuse.… — Danu Morrigan Copy Share Image
“I don't want you to think I don't love my extended family. I do. I just don't want to be around them.… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“What is intuitive to most parents was clarified by biological research: families matter. In the last two decades, scientists in the area… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
“Extended family is great. If you want to know how extended your family is, just go out and win the lottery. Your… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Arab society revolves around the extended family. No one had “no family.” But Palestinians, who became scattered and dispossessed following the Nakbe,… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Recent surveys of Church members have shown a serious erosion in the number of families who have a year's supply of life's… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Only now that I'm a mum can I fully understand the terrible pressure parents feel buying presents for their kids. My mum… — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time with extended family when I was young. Every weekend, Dad would buy half a sheep and… — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like... I make time to clean my house, to care for… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
What makes me the happiest are the times I get together with my family, those times when I am with my children,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I connect with my culture through my family. I speak Portuguese to my parents so that I can practice. I stay engaged… — Camila Mendes Copy Share Image
Though my parents have seen me in all possible avatars, my extended family has been pretty excited since the time they've gotten… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
My true inspirations are my kids and my husband. I'm also inspired by stories of my extended family, friends, and even strangers… — Trista Sutter Copy Share Image
There are elements of comedy that can be competitive and back stab-y, but one of the underreported sides is that we love… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious… — Jemima Khan Copy Share Image
Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
“My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“I was always intense as a child. I was a good listener, which is why I became a good friend to many.… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
