Quotes About Family

I decided to play the saxophone because it was the most obvious instrument in my family. There were a lot of saxophone players in my family, and there were extra saxophones, so that was an easy one to pick up. It was fun - it was okay - it just wasn't me. It didn't feel like my instrument, so I never followed through.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

I think mothers are so important. I mean, it seems like such an obvious thing to say, but I think we don't really express that enough, apart from one day a year. So I think we need to come together and celebrate us every day.

It is more than obvious that Ferrari has a big place in my heart since I was born and, also, in the hearts of our family.

Mother, sister, daughter, wife, cousins - they are a part of your everyday life. You interact with them, communicate, altercate and that they would have an influence on your everyday life is obvious.

I myself have seen the same racism happen to me and my Dad... I think about all the stories I have growing up with my Dad how obvious it is.

My mom obviously had a problem.

I miss my parents a lot. I obviously don't see them loads anyway because they live up north. But knowing that they're only a couple of hours away is a lot different than knowing that they're 12 hours away.

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.

When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

I've been told by people, 'It's strange that you're a celebrity but you've never missed a single occasion to be there for your kids, you're a very hands-on parent.' I'm a very involved parent, actually.

So much were we together that Nanny became almost a part of me. Consequently, it was my occasional encounters with my parents that stand out as the events of the day.

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

I do think about and do occasionally take my wife and son out with me on tour. It's difficult.

You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.

Coming to Rajasthan had been my idea, my dream. In the weeks before we arrived, I had tried and failed on numerous occasions to enthuse my family with the joys of travel in India; reading bits from the guidebooks, telling the children about the history of the Mughals, insisting to my daughter that she really would enjoy curry if it was in India.

Over the holidays is when I have the most occasions to cook and bake.

There were so many occasions when I wasn't around for my kids or my husband. But we learnt to work around it.

I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

As I was growing up, all meals, including breakfast, were family occasions, and you all sat down to eat together - and you had to finish everything as well.

When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for special occasions.

We Kapoors are very family-minded people. For us only family is important and we make it a point to attend each other's birthday parties and special occasions.

Our family has been blessed by God in so many ways. We've found His love and goodness to be our source of strength in both our most joyous occasions and our darkest moments.