Quotes for All
I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I’m a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I’ve held an American passport and I’ve spent my whole adult life in between New York and … Read more
For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn’t until my teens that I met and got to know better members of my extended family (my cousin Alma in particular) that self- identified as artists. Something in us clicked together; in the way we thought, in the … Read more
I’m often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I’m glad I didn’t go, because if I had I wouldn’t have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is. Francesca Annis
…I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That’s what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do. Diane Keaton
I will say that the power of being a stranger in someone else’s religious community has its own lessons, really. It is something like the power of visiting another very happy extended family and being at their table. Diana L. Eck
Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family. Denis Leary
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 and any new mate that your new mate’s ex has acquired. Delia Ephron
Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families. Cynthia Heimel
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. Connie Nielsen
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. Christina Perri