Azzedine Alaia Quotes

My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school, after having made a detour to the kitchen to pour a glass of milk and fix a thick peanut butter sandwich on easy-to-tear white bread, I would go up to her sitting room.

As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother.

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

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.

I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

In Brazil, you are very close to your family; we saw our cousins every weekend, and my grandmother lived with us.

I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.

I grew up in a flat with my brothers and my cousins. My brothers were in the same bed.

From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.

I think my best memory was taking my baby sisters trick-or-treating for the first time.

The kitchen was the center of our household. I spent all of my time there growing up.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.

As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

I had a lovely time growing up.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.