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Family Tradition Quotes
What families carry forward across generations
These family tradition quotes describe expectations passed down with real weight, like a mother hoping a son would continue a rabbinic path. Readers interested in inherited expectation may enjoy Community quotes as well.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keeping with our family tradition of sending their children abroad for a couple of years, and aware of my interest in chemistry, I was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland when I was 11 years old, on the assumption that German was an important language for a prospective chemist to learn.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.
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- Nov 07, 2020