Familial Ties Quotes

India is my kid sister.

I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but it was intensified by my sister, Elena, who is one year older than me. I used to hang out with her all the time, and whenever I travelled, I used to buy her clothes and style her.

I learned early on that just because you come from the same blood as someone doesn't mean they are family.

I can't for the life of me - and I've tried - love someone like I love my grandmother, my sister and my mom.

Future's like an older brother to me, and Thug's more like a brother my age.

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even.

Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes, they make prisons - and they are the jailed and they are the jailers, but because they have the keys in their own hands, they think they are free.

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

For me personally, as much as I don't understand my mom and dad and as much as I feel sorry for them sometimes, I can't help but love them very much.

So, absolutely, [my Dad] will call and say, "I just got offered this or that and what do you think?" My Mom [Lisa Bonet] will do the same. And we all trust each other's opinions. And we all know each other so well and what we're capable of so, if someone's scared to do something, we encourage them to take that chance because we believe in each other as a family.

I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

Next to my family in Manila, Journey is my family.

Lets ignore our mothers' well-meant advice.

I haven't been hunting for years. It is just a tradition I grew up with.

I stand for the Midwest. That's why the album's titled 'M.O.,' 'cause I'm still holding it down like that. My friends and family all call me Mo, so it's kind of like really representing where I'm from and me at the same time.

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.