Rick Riordan Quotes

I've got two families.

He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.

I don't have a regular happy family like most people. My parents are separated; my dad married someone else and so did my mom. All my siblings are from my parents' other marriages. So yes, it is complicated, and I don't like talking about it or explaining this to everybody. But all this doesn't stop us from being close to each other.

Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.

I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.

Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.

We're fortunate in my family because we really have three families: my brother, David, and me; the two boys, Cooper and Marston, from my dad's second marriage; and my dad's wife, Crystal.

I have six siblings but grew up an only child. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle.

I know I will never be able to replace my parents, but over the years I have realized that you aren't able to choose your own family.

It's funny, you know, growing up, you are always introduced to people as your uncle this or your aunt that or your cousin this. By the time I was in my 20s, I had no idea who I actually was or wasn't related to. It's kind of a running joke in the family.

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.

This is so weird. They're your brother and aunt." "No, I understand. They're your family too." Rhys said. "They loved you and raised you. That's what family is, right?

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

I'm against redefining marriage historically 5,000 years... because then it'll be re-defined. What if it's between a brother and a sister?

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

It's more of the older people in my family.

When I was 3 years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me.

You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.

I'm not thinking about forcing my kids to watch my movies. It's always awkward when someone says: "Hey, I wrote a song, can I play it for you?" That would be the dynamic, if I was like: "Hey, you're my son, watch my work!" I don't want to put them in that awkward position. Just because when they get older, that's when I'm worried, that they'll judge me and say: "Yeah, my father's ******* Jack Black. He was in that cheesy movie." So, I'm going to keep it all high quality. It'll be a quality controller.

You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.

Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.