Family Gatherings Quotes

My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

I have a big family. Even though it's only three kids in our family, it's always aunts and uncles and the whole thing.

Music was a big part of my family with gatherings, picnics, barbecues.

I'm a true country Southern girl that has always been built around family, cookouts and gatherings and being together on the holidays, singing together and laughing together. So whenever God opened doors for me to be able to travel the world and sing and do all the great things that I've done, I didn't want to lose that part so family first for me.

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

The holidays are my favorite time of year! Christmas was always one of the biggest celebrations in Sweden, and I look forward to the festivities each year.

My favourite time of year is two weeks before Christmas when everybody's up for it - you're having lunches with people, drinking Cosmopolitans, and getting ready for something exciting!

I would go on summer vacations visiting family all over the world.

Christmas in the Ramsay house is always a noisy chaotic time, but I love it!

No matter how it started, I grew up with a great American love story. Two parents who didn't fight, enjoyed having parties and being together, and it was a great way to grow up.

When we're in London my family goes to mass on Christmas Eve. The next day Dad cooks the turkey on the barbecue, standing outside in the freezing cold.

Expressing gratitude for the miracles in your world is one of the best ways to make each moment of your life a special one. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones!

Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year.

I'm from a big family. I've got 10 nieces and nephews.

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

I think the thing about Easter holidays in particular is you don't know what the weather's going to be like.

My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.

I'm completely obsessed with Sunday roast dinners. I think that it's the best thing to ever happen to life!

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home.

Family gatherings were very important to me growing up.

I look forward to the holiday season every year.

Even as a kid I wasn't, like, a natural entertainer, where I would gather everyone around me and then sing or something at family parties.

I can still remember watching Italy win the 1982 World Cup. I was just an eight-year-old kid in Naples, my hometown, watching the games with a bunch of people in the houses of relatives and friends. I can recall that when Italy scored, we would shout and hug, even though we did not all know each other.