Quotes about Extended Family

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. Votes: 4

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. Votes: 4

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family. Votes: 4

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family. Votes: 4

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective. Votes: 4

My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love. Votes: 4

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family. Votes: 4

When you grow up in an extended family, or in a stable neighborhood with two or three generations of families who live there, you feel seen. Not just the good things you've done, the stuff you put on your resume. You know they've seen you in your dark times, when you've messed up - but they're still there. Votes: 3

I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls. Votes: 2

Our extended family is an integral part of our daily lives and Connie and I welcome you with open arms. Votes: 2

Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone. Votes: 2

What is wrong in getting divorced? If a couple is incompatible and just cannot stay married anymore, should they put on a show of togetherness just for the sake of society, or, for that matter, any extended family? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family. Votes: 2

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family. Votes: 2

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. Votes: 2

...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. Votes: 2

When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment. Votes: 2

I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk. Votes: 2

Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part of extended families. The nepotistic U.S. policy lets in relatives then lets in the relatives' relatives, and so on, creating an endless and ever growing chain of new immigrants. Votes: 2

Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind. Votes: 2

What makes me the happiest are the times I get together with my family, those times when I am with my children, grandchildren, my brothers and sisters and my very close friends, as well as when I am with my extended family in each one of my lectures and power journeys. My greatest joy is just to be alive! Votes: 2

Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time. Votes: 2

I came from a huge extended family of musicians. Votes: 0

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families. Votes: 0

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting Votes: 0

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle. Votes: 0

In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics. Votes: 0

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well. Votes: 0

I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family. Votes: 0

Its almost Thanksgiving! A day when you get to hear your extended family use racial slurs for groups are not taking away their jobs. Votes: 0

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children. Votes: 0