Family Quote by Susan Lieberman

People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have to follow…

— Elizabeth Berg

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a…

— Michael Ignatieff

Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are our roots,…

— Lidia Bastianich

Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the lives of…

— Elizabeth Berg

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th…

— James Hillman

The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting children…

— Arnold Gesell

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values…

— Susan Sontag

Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.

— Diane Greene

“Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors…

— Stephanie Coontz

It's not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It's about a connection and bond…

— Queen Latifah

What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be…

— Jean Illsley Clarke

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your…

— Gayl Jones