Flo Rida Quotes

I grew up a huge wrestling fan. My grandfather, who was a minister and retired when I was a young kid in Sweetwater, Texas, lived right near us. He was a big wrestling fan.

I spent a lot of my school vacations in Devlali because my grandparents lived in the cantonment there.

I grew up watching 'Gilmore Girls' with my older cousins!

My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.

I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

I have 17 nieces and nephews, who are a pure delight. We have hiked and biked and fasted and prayed together.

My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.

As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear stories about their parents when they were children.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

When I was young, my family used to go and stay in hotels on the south coast in places like Devon. I loved those holidays because they were with my brothers, who were away at school; I really looked forward to them.

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

I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me.

I've known Hillary, and her husband Bill, for more than half of my life. I remember her playing mermaid in the pool with our youngest daughter Sally for hours on family vacations.

My family has always been very close. Ever since I was a kid, everybody was always together, including my grandma. In the mornings, my mom would work, and my grandma would help me get ready and would walk me to school. We were all so close to her.

My two sisters and I had a very nice nanny at home in Morocco until I was 13. I remember my parents saying how she had insinuated herself into our family. They knew she would suffer when we broke away from her.

I grew up on a farm playing backyard footie in my bare feet.

I was quite lucky: although my dad worked a lot, whenever he was free, he would play sports with me and my brother, and I can't wait to do that with my child.

In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.

Family gatherings were very important to me growing up.