Quotes About Tradition

I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.

I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

My tastes are Viennese.

I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies.

Tattoos are traditionally super masculine, but I just like it. I like the art.

My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember.

My mother taught me how to make Boston baked beans. People always buy pork and beans, but my mother will make them from scratch, because she learned as a bride and there's an art to it.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

I had a sense of pride for the armed forces from the time I was a child because of my grandfather. He taught me to salute. He told me that every time I see army personnel, I should salute as a mark of respect.

My mother taught me my first bhajan. My mother, Shobha Nigam, was a very religious woman. From her only I learnt 'Om Jai Jagdish' song and used to do puja along with her.

Golf is me and buddies out having a good time, but most of all, golf is about me and my dad. Anytime I think of golf, I think about my dad. He taught me how to hit a golf ball, and he got me playing.

I believe that if a guy doesn't offer to pay the whole thing when he asks you on a date, he wasn't taught right. But I also believe if a woman on a date allows him to pay for the whole thing without at least offering to pay half, she wasn't taught right.

There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning.

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

Not that we've got anything against America, mind. But let's face it, you make a lousy cup of tea over here.

I'm an afternoon tea maven. I can tell you who has the best tea in every country.