Quotes About Connection

It's a very different bond, siblings and friends. And I just - I wanted that huge family, just to surround me, be surrounded by.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.

And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

The biggest family in the world is my fans.

That has always been my biggest ambition. To bring people together. To achieve a family spirit. Because then, you can actually do anything, because people are open to what they feel is real.

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family for a while and document it.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

My family's really close.

What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

Some places are like family. They annoy us to no end, especially during the holidays, but we keep coming back for more because we know, deep in our hearts, that our destinies are intertwined.

I really miss my family and my kids when I'm away from home.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

I was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers.

I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

Activities are a real blessing to a family. They provide a way to have fun together, relieve tensions, and develop relationships on new levels with one another.

My family is my number one priority.

Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.

I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.