Quotes About Tradition

I always pray. I'm quite religious. I've had the beads since I can remember.

Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.

My grandmother lived on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy, and she used to go to church every day. She'd go in, light a candle, she'd pray, and as a child, that was comforting to me.

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren't.

Open a Jewish daily prayer book used in any part of the world, and Zionism will leap out at you.

May 2 is traditionally the National Day of Prayer, a government-designated religious event intended to encourage people to 'turn to God in prayer and meditation.'

I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

My grandmother and my mother and my grandfather, their style of praying was - all day long, they would pray by singing and humming.

I read 'Preacher' once a year.

I was born into a family of preachers.

The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me.

I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.

I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

In my family, people become pregnant at 33 or something, not 26.