Quotes About Family

My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.

No one in my family is Jewish; no one was raised as a Jew, me included.

I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.

My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.

When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

You can't do more mama than Italian Jewish mama.

The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

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.

My dad, Jim, was 55 when I was born.

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.

It doesn't matter if someone is your fourth cousin once removed, he is Cousin Jimmy and called that always.

I read 'Mommie Dearest,' and while I am not comparing myself to Joan Crawford, I will never uproot my child. I won't make my daughter move. I'd rather not work than do that.

I have become a housewife and there is no better job.

You can't equate me with Joe Jackson. I've never hit my kid, I'm educated, I understand the business world.

Marrying Joe wasn't just about him. It was about Hunter and Beau as well. They had endured the loss of one mother already, and I couldn't risk having them lose another.

Joe Mantegna is like my Los Angeles dad.

I remember hearing people like Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, and Elvis. My parents were big fans of them, and they were the early seeds. My brother was more into Slipknot, and I still listen to them, too, but it wasn't until I listened to Paolo Nutini that it really clicked.

What I said was that Joe's family was different than my family, that he came from a very affectionate family. My family was very loving, but we didn't show that kind of affection. So for me, that took me a little while to get used to that.