Apolo Ohno Quotes

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 family is very close. I can't say that about many people I meet in Hollywood.

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

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

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

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.

My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world.

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

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

A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Tell me, who doesn't want to have a family to extend himself/herself?

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.

I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family.

It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.

I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.

I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.

I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

I was happy as an only child, but I've always wanted to be part of a bigger family.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.