We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>