Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less. ”

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. ”

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ”

It stuns me how effective children can be in their messaging, and I believe that every child should enjoy that basic right to become an adult. Getting rid of childhood cancers is one effective way to reach that goal. ”

I think that cakes should have touches of candy bar in order for it really to hit all those childhood notes on the keyboard. ”

Easter is an arts and crafts moment where your whole family and friends can get involved. ”

Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die. ”

We're a big community, a big family here in Houston. ”

If you believe in romance, and if you believe in marriage, you also have to believe in divorce. It's like, with 'Getting On,' a lot of people say, 'I don't want to watch that. It's so dark.' But you can't just want to go to weddings and children's birthday parties. You've got to witness it all. ”

I was kind of the comic relief in my household. We had a chronic illness in the family. And so, a lot of emergency room visits, and my role was to be silly and add levity, and we're Jewish. So every Passover is a performance. You kind of learn to role play and do voices at the Passover Seder. ”