Best 10 quotes in «extended family quotes» category

No one 'just adopts'.

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

from The Ninja and The Diplomat (coming in September 2015)--As an unintended but ineluctable consequence of the one child policy, he and his wife, like most of his generation and those succeeding, consisted of only children; hence his family included no aunts or uncles, no cousins, and no nieces or nephews. The Chinese family had lost an immeasurable dimension of richness.

We owe some of our family members respect, but do not owe any of them love.

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and sort of hating on each other. So I'm not an extremely politically active person at this stage of my life.

A husband, a wife and some kids is not a family. It's a terribly vulnerable survival unit.

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.