Camila Alves Quotes

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

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 really like reading about how families work together.

Everyone has hiccups in their families.

I write about families. That is who we are.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

I never watch 'Sopranos' reruns back home. As far as I am concerned, the nuclear family is still sitting around the luncheonette in New Jersey, munching and chatting, safe and together, and that's how it ended for me.

Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.

I grew up with all my cousins. The men worked, and the older women raised us - my mother, my aunt, my grandmother. My great-grandmother was the matriarch, and sometimes there were 30 of us.

Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.

I keep hearing from readers who say 'Hoax' helps them understand their own family a little bit better.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

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.

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

It's important for me to have my family close.

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

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?