top of page
Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes

"I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions."

Standard 
 Customized
"I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions."

More 

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents' foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Torn clothes are funny - until your dad gets fired."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions."

Family

Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."

Truth

Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

Cultural

Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."

Identity

Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."

Life

Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken."

Past

Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research."

Research

Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it."

Education

Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."

Life

Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment."

Cultural

bottom of page