“Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze.” PeopleIfsKnowsMeanWholeWould BePartyFamilyFoodMy FamilyGood ThingsLionsElephantsTigersUnicornMenagerie Author:Gertrude Berg
“Being Latina means I have culture I guess. We party together, cry together, and cook together. Or at least my family does as much as we can. We know where we're from and we have a certain kind of rhythm and understanding. Togetherness. As I get older it becomes more apparent that there is a community in this industry that is working together to rise up and fight against the misinterpretation of Hispanic and what it means to be a Latino-American nowadays.” KnowsKindMeanDoeTogetherCertainCultureFightingUnderstandingCommunityPartyCryIndustryMy FamilyRhythmCooksWorking TogetherTogethernessLatinoHispanicLatinaMisinterpretation Author:Alicia Sixtos
“In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property. Sometimes we have cake. We're not losers.” MeanSometimesPartyNormalMy FamilyDestructionPropertySurpriseLoserCakeAbandonmentHomelessnessPrivate PropertySurprise MeNormal Family Author:Christopher Titus
“In a normal family, a surprise means presents, cake and a party. For me ? I had no idea. And my family, doing something nice is seen as an attack. When I was nine, I 'attacked' my father with a fathers day gift. A visor organiser for his car, because it was useful. And it rhymed. Visor. Organiser. I was nine.” MeanIdeasFatherPartyNiceCarNormalMy FamilySurpriseNineNo IdeaCakeFathers DaySurprise MeNormal Family Author:Christopher Titus
“I tried partying and going out, doing drugs and even dealing drugs to support my habit. I was hanging out with people from the underground who were doing illegal things all the time. I was experimenting with more and more drugs to the point where skateboarding was the last thing on my mind and my family was next to last.” PeopleMindLastsNextPartySupportHabitDrugMy FamilyIllegalHanging OutGoing OutSkateboardingThings On My MindIllegal Things Author:Christian Hosoi
“I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but we've always wanted the Republican Party to be the party of fiscally conservative, limited-government types. And I think, sometimes, we haven't done that as well.” ThinkingFirstsWellsSometimesDoneGovernmentWantedPartyHavensTypeRepublicanMy FamilyConservativeConventionsRepublican PartyLimited GovernmentGerald Ford Author:Rand Paul
“I remember after I dated this white man, nobody said anything but there was a couple of men in my family that joked after that. 'Oh yeah, we had a party when y'all broke up. Hee hee hee.' And, you know, they laughed, and it was like light and a joke. But, you know, that's real. That was real and they let me know. And, it's almost acceptable within our culture to be prejudiced toward whites because of our history. This country is loaded with racism .” KnowsMenSaidRealCountryLightRememberCultureWhitePartyCoupleRacismJokesMy FamilyLet MeYeahBrokeLaughedAcceptableWhite ManLoadedBroke Up Author:Sanaa Lathan
“I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantWritingBelieveEnoughFactsLevelsPartyGrowing UpGrowingGrewOffersConversationGrew UpMy FamilyBeing TrueFamily And FriendsScrewsScrew Ups Author:Aaron Sorkin
“When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked; when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.” ThinkingLooksHelpingTogetherBeautifulMovingFallPartyWatchesMy FamilyHarmonyFalling In LoveStrangerDinnerLifestyleThis LifeOutsidersGroceriesDinner PartyI Fall In LoveAbnegationCaleb Book:The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant Source: The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant
“If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.” IfsLittlesPersonsDifferentEndsHelpingParentGoalLinesPartySecretPerceptionMy FamilyEmptyChaosIntenseDependentLiarsCherishFearfulImpressionableThinnessPerception Of OthersGood Liar Author:Marya Hornbacher