Severn Cullis-Suzuki Quotes

Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.

I sort of take cues from my grandparents.

Family counts for a lot in this world.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.

To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

We actually have a small family. It's just my father and I and my grandmother, who lives in Tokyo. I cherish my friendships.

We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

My grandfather influenced my brother, and my brother was my biggest influence.

I think a family is the best way to open up the appeal of a show because everyone has a mother. Everyone has a father. Everyone has cousins or siblings. Everyone's trying to pursue their romantic ideals and their relationship ideals.

I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.

I never got to know my grandparents, and I am envious of my friends who have a special relationship with theirs.

Most importantly, I realize the value of the other people - the extended family - the other people within my community, my cultures: my teachers and the other people I call Auntie, Uncle, Godfather, Godbrother, whatever. These are people who pulled you in and made you part of their lives and their homes.

Everyone can relate to loving someone and hating them in the same moment - husbands, wives, partners, siblings, parents, friends. It's kind of universal in that way.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.

Family has been really important to me.

There's a lot of truth in family relationships.

My family and my friends definitely keep me connected to my culture.