Liya Kebede Quotes

I like wearing my dad's sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

I remember Tim Meadows gave me a radio. It was a radio he didn't want anymore. I gave it to my grandmother, and she had it 'til the day she died. To me, it was, 'I got a thing from Tim Meadows!' I think my grandmother was like, 'I got a thing from my grandson!'

That's one of my favorite things from my dad is his old jersey.

My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

My mother's cross was given to me when she died. I like to have it always close to me.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

My passion for fashion originated in my mother's closet. She was a woman who loved fashion. She enjoyed dressing up a lot, and she had a closet that was like her sacred room that belonged only to her. She wouldn't let us go in and play there very often.

I am truly my mother's son.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

I am so proud to be my mother's son.

I have two paintings that used to belong to my grandmother, who lived in Chicago. When I was young, I used to sleep over at her house. They came to me when she passed away. I remember looking at them when I was a girl, and now, every time I see them, I feel good.

My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a child, and whenever he left, he would write to me. He wrote letters to me all through college, and we still correspond. His letters, and my mother's, are one of my life's treasures.

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.

And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.

When my father passed away, I learned to be unattached to physical things. At a very young age, I was able to roam the world and be emotionally connected but physically disconnected. I'll get homesick in that I miss my mom. My grounding rock is her and my family.

The memories we make with our family is everything.

I was fortunate to be able to go to the Scotland games with my grandad and it's scary to think I could now be playing in one.

My family's very important to me.

I've seen my dad's three rings. I'd love to have one for myself.

Most people believe their family is special. I know mine is.

Varavelpu' has a special place in my heart because it was inspired from my own father's experiences.

I love playing in the Garden. My dad used to tell me stories about playing here. So to see that crowd, it's crazy.