It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I…

But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Recent surveys of Church members have shown a serious erosion in the number of families who have a year's supply of life's necessities. Most…

— Thomas S. Monson

In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they…

— Richard Dawkins

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

— Cynthia Heimel

Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part…

— Ronald Reagan

Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to…

— Stephanie Coontz

One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My Open Hearts Family celebrates not only the traditional family but also extended families that we create from the people we open our hearts…

— Jane Seymour

I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.

— Richard Flanagan

I don't know what happens in other people's extended families but in ours we don't talk about half-brothers or half-sisters. We are whole. That…

— Cedella Marley

“Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt…

— Carolyn Murphy

Because everyone grows up together in my small hometown, everyone knows everyone else. And there are such large extended families that a lot of…

— Jesmyn Ward

Our lifestyle is deeply communal, with extended families traditionally sharing the burdens and bounties of life together, eating meals from the same plate.

— Abiy Ahmed

I have connected with my family more because I have made a group in which I have added all my family members from my…

— Sara Khan