Anita Brookner Quotes

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.

There's nothing universal about Indian families except that the family itself is deeply important across the country. It's sort of the fabric and anchor of our country.

I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

My mother told me when I left for college, 'Never forget your roots,' and I never have.

I got a big Filipino family. That's what I love about being Pinoy: we all gotta surround ourselves with family; we all gotta laugh and do things together. I love it! It's family first.

I grew up in a small, rural community, where my extended family were mountain-folk type people, and some were very religious.

I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.

I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on.

I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you're not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory.

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

I have been raised to value my family.

Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.

To be a Jew is a destiny.

There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness, in that people tend to be related to one another.