Oliver Hudson Quotes

Family does not necessarily mean blood relative.

I don't believe you have to be blood to be family, so I have a lot of family members.

I know I will never be able to replace my parents, but over the years I have realized that you aren't able to choose your own family.

I think blood doesn't determine who your family is.

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.

I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

Due to my lack of family, I've almost built a family around me of friends that are, for me that is, they mean more to me than my own family.

My family is always my priority.

My priorities are my friends and my family.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

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?

My family is my number one priority.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family.

I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

My family are everything to me. They come first in everything I do.