- Nov 07, 2020
Family Quotes
On heritage, closeness and the pull of family.
These quotes touch on family in different forms: a sports club described as having a family feel, and personal reflections on growing up within a close, sometimes insular, family circle. For devotional lines on family, see our Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved 'Modern Family!' It was sort of the precursor to 'Trainwreck,' to that character. But I loved it. I had a great time doing it.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish 'colony' there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it's better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020