family Quotes

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.