Henry Golding Quotes

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

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

I'm from a big family. I've got 10 nieces and nephews.

Patrick Wilson is my brother-in-law - we married sisters.

My contact with my dad's side of my family got less after we stopped living together, but they were in my life.

I have a lot of cousins that I'm very close to.

I'm part of a really big family.

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

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?

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.

I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

No matter our background, we all have crazy families.

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.

Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

I have a big family, and I spend a lot of time with them.

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.

My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.