Nita Ambani Quotes

I don't come from a unit family; I come from a Sang Parivar, Swayam Sevak family.

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

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.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.

I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.

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

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

My grandparents came from a typical Marathi family, where they respect the value of rules and regulations.

Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.

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'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

I have been raised to value my family.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

I grew up in a great family.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

I come from a typical family.

I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.