Jessie James Decker Quotes

Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.

I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

My family means different things to different folks. I think, for most people, they have very fond memories and believe my family made important contributions to the country.

I am learning cooking... all my mother's recipes.

I'm passionate about holding on to my heritage and sharing it with family and friends, and cooking is a great way to do this.

More than anything, a lot of our family's history is tied to food. It's just one of those things.

My great-grandmother taught my mom to cook and she passed down the recipes to me.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in 'Alice in Wonderland' or a doll with grandma's dress, but then they also let me know they're bummed I didn't do any of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

I want my kids to live their life with great family memories that they can pass on to their children.

The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts. They were quite the characters, and we tied them to about 50 recipes. It's like a memoir-cookbook.

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.

I'm not entirely sure why I write about family, but I do know that it hasn't stopped interesting me. You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are constant links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads.

When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.

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.

After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.

My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything.

We have four grown children and five grandchildren... so far! So, as you can imagine, family is extremely important to us.

I'm not sure I'm a good cook. But I like cooking, and it's a real family thing - an expression of love being together.

There is so much more than ingredients that go into home cooking. A home-cooked meal includes so much love and recipes that have been passed down through generations, and that is what I truly appreciate.

Family relationships are just so fascinating - how they shape you as a person, how you can wound each other, how you're imprinted in a way by your family and the conditions under which you grow up.

When I was a kid, both my mom and my dad worked night shifts, so we would spend a lot of time at my grandfather's house. He taught at UCLA and was just really into history. Before bed, when other kids heard fairy tales, he would tell us about the American founding fathers and the beginning of democracy.

Maybe family is an eternal subject for me.