Intergenerational Traits Quotes

My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

I can see parts of my father in 'Kingdom' when I rage like that. I can see my father's frustrations in his life.

I'm demanding and critical about myself. It's something my parents passed on to me.

I got my calmness from my mum.

It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.

A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.

My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.

I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.

My dad had a temper. I have a temper. Most people I know have a temper. And I think it comes out mostly with your family. I don't think it's unique to the Buscemis, but it's something I've been able to tap into when I play certain roles.

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

It's funny, I see my dad in myself when I say certain things or I do certain things. I'll say, 'That was my dad right there.'

I get tired of hearing people, well-meaning people, talking about African-American kids or Hispanic kids as if they're all the same. Which isn't true. There is a very diverse group of people in both groups in terms of income, objectives in life, aspirations, cultural wants, habits, all the things that make us unique Americans.

Characteristics cling to families.

My father was also a painter - actually, a traditional Chinese painter. His personality is pretty timid and cautious. Like him, I was growing up as a cautious kid.

Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like us. We were just happy to have some kids. And people tell me all the time that they look like us, and that's because they learn to smile and laugh and move their head a certain way from studying their parents' faces.

My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

I have Scottish genes: my grandfather was Scottish. My father was a voracious drinker. So, drinking came naturally to me.

Our son Gautam is very shy, just like his father.