Quotes About Tradition

I'm a believer in arranged marriages. I mean, mine was kind of an arranged marriage. My sister introduced me to my husband. You know, kind of set it up.

I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone's morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.

No matter if my dad had to work, or my sister was gone until 7, or I had basketball practice until 8, we always ate together. I think that's a big part of the Hispanic family, the culture. That is key to our existence, really.

I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Angel, and my brother was going to be called Bubba or Sonny, until they let me and my sister name him Josh.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers.

I come from a big family of brothers and sisters and family dramas and honor and dishonor.

I enjoyed my time at L.S.U. I wouldn't change it for anything. My dad went to college - my sisters, brothers - so I felt like I just had to, and I enjoyed it.

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.

I learned everything I know about music from my parents and my sisters.

I think my best memory was taking my baby sisters trick-or-treating for the first time.

When I was growing up, my father would gather all of his children, seven brothers and seven sisters, around the television set and we would religiously watch every time Notre Dame played.

When you sit at the feet of an elder, it changes you.

You know as well as I do that the family sitcom was the stalwart of TV for God knows how many decades.

The family sitcom has been around forever, since the advent of television. I don't need to reinvent it. But if you take something and you do it in a way that you haven't necessarily seen before, that's right where I live.

Being Orthodox Jewish is kind of like being raised on like network sitcoms.

I grew up in a household where we cooked all the time. My mom cooked all the time; my dad cooked. My grandmothers cooked. I have memories of sitting on the counter and snapping green beans with my grandmother.

I grew up with my dad sitting us down at the holidays and putting on 'The Honeymooners.'

My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.

It's only in India that you can have six couples going together on a honeymoon. I don't think it happens anywhere else in the world.

I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.