Best 10 quotes in «large family quotes» category

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.

That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.

Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

Clearly, they were proud of each other, and of being so many.

I personally have my own idea of an efficient house. It would be totally concrete with a big drain in the middle, a large fiberglass tree for my kids to swing from and a hose hanging in the corner.

We arrived from New York after a daylong slog through airports and planes and traffic. It was 10: 00 p.m. local time, but my body had no idea if it was night or day. Krishna was hungry, so I found some leftover dosa batter in the kitchen and started making one for her. Next thing I knew, my grandmother was by my side, commandeering the griddle. “Let me do it,” she said. “You don’t know where anything is.” I insisted, but she won, even though by then she cooked with only one arm, the other still paralyzed from the stroke. Then my aunt Papu came in and yelped, “You’re making your grandma cook?” She was appalled. “It’s ten at night!” Papu took over, my grandmother wouldn’t leave, and my uncle Ravi entered the fray. “Look at you,” he said. “You’re supposed to be this famous food person and you’re making these women cook at ten o’clock!” I quickly remembered how it felt to live with so many people. Every move you make is scrutinized. You get up and it’s “Where are you going?” You come back and it’s “Why are you wearing that blouse? I like the other one better.” You walk outside and someone calls from the veranda, “Don’t go that way, there’s too much sun!” It was exasperating and suffocating and God, I had missed it.

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.