Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

I used to believe in God as a child. God, for me, was linked with hope. ”

London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely at times, and that's someone with two children in their family. ”

Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving partner. ”

I talk to myself all the time - it's something my children have observed in the car. ”

I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be. ”

By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing. ”

My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life. ”

I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to start with. ”

My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum. ”

Like many free market economists, with whom he had little else in common, Nehru seemed to believe that people will find a way to get their children educated. ”