Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that’s how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.
I have a huge affinity with London, and I have a lot of relatives here – now and before I was born. I pretty much look at London as the centre of the universe.
Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All artists need love – from the audience, friends and relatives. But true and faithful friends are exceptionally rare.
My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother’s anxiety.
When I visit my village, relatives or even when I am at a film shoot, I try to observe my surroundings and understand the environment.
I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.
Not just me, in fact, my entire family is a devout follower of Lord Hanuman. It’s an annual affair where we all celebrate Hanuman Jayanti with a big puja at home, and all the relatives join us in the puja.
Trump’s foundation has done nothing. Its board is packed with relatives, and he’s going to use his presidency to sell himself and his brand and profit personally for himself and his family.
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it. There’s not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens.
Across society, the lion’s share of caring responsibility – whether for children or elderly relatives – still falls on women.
Why do all our friends and relatives destroy the summer for us? Why can’t they get married in February?
People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.
God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad’s sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.
All my summer and Puja vacations were spent in Calcutta with my didima and a host of other relatives and friends.
I’m just raising money. Dead presidents are my relatives.
When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
Women sometimes get so caught up in life… their marriage takes over their life, their relatives take over their life, and then they forget who they are.
There’s a certain amount of pressure that comes from playing real people. It’s a pressure to deliver something fair and right to the real person and any living relatives. But generally, it’s a joy, as you get to target your interest on a particular era.
My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast. It was very bittersweet when we said goodbye to our relatives, and I remember crying my eyes out at the airport.
A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.
When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.
I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.
It is true that Indian Airlines often behaves exactly like the government does. It is stingy with information, designates junior officials to deal with the serious task of communicating with the relatives and the people, and is often simply insensitive.
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
People talk without knowing the real Cristiano. He’s a normal person with normal habits like us. He likes his relatives. He loves his sons. He stresses the importance of being a father which I think is important. He’s does this perfectly and naturally.
Home, for me, is with the people who I really love – whether that’s in England with my family, Ireland with my relatives, or Germany and Canada with my friends.
I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
Let’s say, 100 years ago, I’m not sure how many people had to empty out their relatives’ homes; they just stayed in the same house, because they lived there. Nowadays, almost everyone, at least once in their life, somehow, has to deal with this experience.
In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
I hear from my Inuit and Yupik relatives up north that everything has changed. It’s so hot; there is not enough winter. Animals are confused. Ice is melting.
Trust is an issue that is very personal to each individual. You want to feel love and trust and all those things that bind relationships together, with your partner, your friends, your relatives, or any loved ones.
When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.
You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don’t. It’s the same as visiting the Statue of Liberty. If you don’t live in N.Y.C., it’s the first stop on your family vacation, but if you live there, you only go if you have relatives visiting from out of town!
During childhood, I spent every summer vacation, visiting relatives in Chamoli district in Uttarkhand.
I was way more comfortable in front of strangers than I was in front of relatives. So when they would laugh at my dysfunctions or my anxiety, I felt less alone, and I still do it for the same reason.
Contemporary families can be made in many ways. You might step up when relatives or friends are unable to meet their obligation to their children. You might marry someone who is already a parent. Or you might, as in my case, yearn to create a family and decide to adopt.
I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the ’80s. When it’s that close to you, you can’t – you know, you can’t really deny it, and you can’t run from it.
Well, if you don’t want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won’t die.
My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn’t know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic.
Although it was common in our culture to complain a lot – about friends, relatives, business partners, bad luck, and the general cluelessness of non-Jews – we were not permitted to complain that anti-Semitism and discrimination were standing in our way.
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it. There’s not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
Celebrate your family’s bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you’ll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome.
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.
