Kim Zolciak-Biermann Quotes

Sometimes 'Frances' can be about finding the missing piece, trying to look for biological family as opposed to maybe realizing your family is whoever is around you at the time.

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

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.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' is about redefining what a family could be. It has a visual distinction and an experimental quality.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

We inherit the family we're born into and create the family we need.

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

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.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

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 got my feet on the ground because I've got a lovely family waiting for me when I get home, even though they're not my flesh and blood. I haven't got children. That's my only regret, I suppose.

Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.

I do come from a very close family. And I'm fascinated, in particular, with family relationships and the relationships that we all form with friends who feel as close, if not closer, than family.

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

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in another family, and it's not your choice, and you can't get out.

I have six siblings but grew up an only child. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle.

I never had a family, and now I do. I know I'm a very lucky guy.

I'm adopted by my uncle and aunt, who I look to as my parents and people who really did everything they could to put me on the right path. I'm really grateful to them.

Every family goes through ups and downs. You may want a relationship with someone, which your family may not approve of but they don't stop loving you.

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