Rick Smolan Quotes

It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now.

I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.

I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us.

The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were already born, and then my parents adopted my sister from El Salvador during the war and had two more kids.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

I've got two families.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.

The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.

I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.

I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.