Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it. 917
A lot of what I’m obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father. 2.54K
Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that. 696
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family’s subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father. 679
Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it’s not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I’m going to be married and buried there. 636
My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you’re 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere. 976
I love where I’m from. I don’t live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It’s what’s inside, it’s not what’s outside that determines the culture and the feeling. 663
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find. 2.37K
There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much. 2.51K
My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value – I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone. 991
I can’t say it’s not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise. 614
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being’s functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. 623
At a family’s most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one’s sacrifice and service. 694
I can’t imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What’s a home and family for if it’s not the center of one’s life? 2.37K
