A Quote by Sandra Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

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Sandra Bullock
American - Actress
Born: July 26, 1964

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

Gertrude Stein

Neve Campbell, Scott Wolf, and Paula Devicqu - we all keep in close touch. Especially now that I have the baby, I want to share her with my extended family. And I do consider them part of my extended family.

Lacey Chabert

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

Denis Leary

I connect with my culture through my family. I speak Portuguese to my parents so that I can practice. I stay engaged with my extended family through a lively group chat on WhatsApp. That sense of community and family is the heart of Brazilian culture, and staying engaged with my family is what keeps me connected.

Camila Mendes

Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time.

M. Russell Ballard

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

Sandra Bullock

You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.

Tracy Letts

I see myself as having three families: my birth family, the family that raised me, and my Cree family, who I was reunited with in my late teens, so I consider myself to be lucky.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I've been in and out of hospitals a lot in terms of family or extended family or myself.

Matt Czuchry

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Susan Sontag

No one in my family is musical, including extended family. I am like the black sheep.

Chloe Kohanski

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

Matt de la Pena

Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.

Lauryn Hill

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.