“I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.” YearsBigsKidsBrotherMomRaisedSevenMy MomEightTeenagerMy BrotherBrothers And SistersSeven YearsBig Families Author:Ryan McGinley
“I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.” KnowsHardSpiritSacrificeBrotherHard WorkMomProudSucceedToolsRaisedPerseveranceAthleteMy MomMy BrotherCourageousBeing ThankfulOlympic AthleteCourageous WomenAlways Be Thankful Author:Diana Lopez
“I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.” MenFatherTeacherTeachingBrotherRaisedMales Author:Angelina Jolie
“I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.” ThinkingCommunityResponsibilityHeardTaughtBrotherClothesRaisedComplainingMy BrotherBrothers And SistersCrippled Author:Ernest Gaines
“I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. Theyve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.” PeopleThinkingGivingTwoHardMotherFatherGoalTaughtBrotherHard WorkRaisedDefinitionsMy BrotherBrothers And SistersMother And Father Author:Josie Loren
“I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on. I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.” IfsThinkingWantStillsBodyWantedFilmTurnsSoundGoalSpaceTalkingWatchesComedyBrotherRaisedCinemaVisualsCompositionCartoonChuckAlways ThinkingFramingOrchestrationWarner Brothers Author:Alexander Payne
“There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.” RealMotherFatherStuffParentImaginationFireLonelinessBrotherMonthsRaisedRadioCoreRanDramaticMy BrotherExistentialMy ImaginationLonerBackyardsEthanolFire Escapes Author:George Carlin
“I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing. My brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family.” BigsDealsBrotherGayNormalMy FamilyRaisedMy BrotherHouseholdClosetsMy Best FriendBig DealBeing GayNormal Things Author:Ariana Grande
“I love my family, they love me. And my little brothers, they're like my sons. I raised them.” LittlesSonBrotherMy FamilyRaisedMy SonLittle BrotherLove My FamilyI Love My FamilyMy Little Brother Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef
“Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960′s. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.” ChildrenDifferentHouseStepsBrotherGrewMomGrew UpYeahRaisedCaliforniaMy BrotherSouthern1960sSiblingOnly ChildSouthern California Author:David Cassidy
“In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are raised in such a hostile and violent environment, how can we hope for a harmonious future for all people of this world? In this light, the purpose of human life is to achieve our own spiritual evolution, to get rid of negativity, to establish harmony among our physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual quadrants, to learn to live in harmony within the family, community, nation, ..treating all of mankind as brothers and sisters.” PeopleWorldHumansChildrenLightSpiritualLife IsPurposeNationsCommunityLeaderEnvironmentAchieveMankindThis WorldEmotionalBrotherEvolutionIntellectualHarmonyRaisedViolentHuman LifeCivilizedOur FutureNegativityBrothers And SistersHostileHarmoniousSexuallySpiritual Evolution Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“I was raised with a ton of brothers and sisters where, obviously, the music running in and out of the house was very eclectic. So, I had a lot under my belt by the time I grew up. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in, the space that I'm in and what I'm feeling at that moment. But definitely!” MomentsFeelingsRunningHouseSpaceBrotherGrewDependsGrew UpRaisedMoodThat MomentBrothers And SistersBeltsEclectic Author:Janet Jackson
“I don't have kids, but in many ways I feel I've had them already. I don't want to say I raised my brothers - that sounds too strong - but actually I do feel like that a bit.” WayWantFeelsKidsStrongBitsSoundBrotherRaisedMy Brother Author:Meg Cabot
“And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.” IfsChildrenTwoPerfectImagineBrotherRaisesRaisedGrandmotherHallsImagine ThatStrictEleanorTwo BrothersPerfect Child Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.” PeopleMotherFatherSituationCrazyBrotherLifetimeRaisedStrangerDramaticMy BrotherOver ItMy SisterChill Author:Angel Olsen
“In the last presidential election Obama and Romney raised about $1 billion each. The Koch brothers, the second wealthiest family in America, now say they will raise nearly $1 billion for the 2016 elections. When one family can raise as much as an entire party, the system is broken. This is oligarchy, not democracy. We must overturn Citizens United.” LastsAmericaUnitedPartyDemocracyBrotherBrokenCitizensRaisesElectionRaisedBillionsPresidentialRomneyOligarchyPresidential ElectionCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“My parents were born and raised in Iowa and my two brothers were born in Iowa before my family moved to California where I was born so I still really feel like I have those Midwestern roots.” FeelsStillsTwoParentBornBrotherRootsMy FamilyMovedRaisedCaliforniaIowaBorn And RaisedTwo Brothers Author:Jennie Finch
“My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.” KnowsKindWantedThreeHoursMemoriesPracticePlayerBrotherDadRaisedGuitarMy DadHatedObsessedMy BrotherSpiteTrumpetsGuitar Player Author:Zach Condon
“My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to be raised differently than my brother and sister were. My parents went through the whole sixties rebellion with my brother and sister. But I didn't feel like I had to rebel because I didn't have anyone telling me I couldn't do something. I never went into that parents-as-enemies stage.” FeelsMadeWholeMotherFatherParentEnemyStageBrotherSafeOkayRaisedMy BrotherAgreementRebellionRebelSixtyBrothers And SistersPlaying It Safe Author:Julie Taymor
“I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass. My whole family has always pushed the arts, you know? My brother is a doctor of music and my cousin is an opera singer over in Austria. Arts were always a big thing in our family.” KnowsYearsArtWholeBigsBrotherTenDoctorsJazzRaisedSingersPianoOur FamilyMy BrotherOperaTwelveBig ThingsCousinBassJazz MusicWhole FamilySaxophoneMy CousinAustriaOpera Singers Author:Matt Snell
“Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.” ThinkingMenWellsMotherGuyFourBrotherDaughterRaisedBunchCousinOnly DaughterFour Brothers Author:Alicia Machado
“And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.” HomeMotherFatherSidesCitiesBrotherDaughterBlueSouthRaisedWorkersMy BrotherChicagoCollarsBlue Collar Author:Michelle Obama