Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. ”

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence. ”

I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home. ”

I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand. ”

In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens. ”

I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were vegetarians. The rest of us enjoyed eating - on special occasions - chicken or fish or mutton. ”

I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say. ”

I get up in the morning, have a job to do, go there, come home, be with the family, that's it. ”

Rajeev Gandhi was prime minister. We've had a long family relationship with them. He asked me to fight an election, and I went ahead and did it. But I was not qualified as a politician, and I am not going back there again. ”

I have no desire to advise the Gandhi family. ”