Quotes About Tradition

No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

People listened to Farsi texts, and to the great texts of our Baba Bulleh Shah, Khwaja Ghulam Farid, Mian Mohammad Bakhsh Jehlmi. People do listen to it these days, but much less than in those days.

I have written many works to accompany Old Church Slavonic texts.

It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes.

One thing we don't have in Italy is the culture of Chinese, Indian, French and Thai food.

My mother's from Thailand, and they're very strict about girls in bikinis, but I would love to do a shoot in the floating market in Thailand.

I'd been to an Orthodox Jewish primary school where, every morning, the boys said, 'Thank you God for not making me a woman.' If you put that together with 'The Handmaid's Tale' in your head, something will eventually go fizz! Boom!

I do think that Thanksgiving is a very nice holiday because it's all about saying thank you; it's being thankful.

I'm so thankful that Mum taught me to cook, because not every day is a takeaway day.

Mexico is known throughout the world thanks to mariachi.

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

I give thanks for the fact that I can get this stick with a bit of steel nib on the end, dip it in some black carbon stuff, and draw on paper. Now, people did it the same way 2,000 years ago. And there's something lovely about that play, and making mud pies and a mess. That's a lovely privilege.

My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open.

Enjoying phuljharis is the first thing that I can think of from my childhood Diwali days.

The first thing I do when I get back to my hometown, San Antonio, is eat Whataburger.

In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.

Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was the first thing I did when my father died in 1984. This ritual allowed me a moment to take in the enormity of what had happened.

I feel like I'm the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

When one thinks of golf and Scotland, the first thing that comes to mind is usually St. Andrews, especially the famed Old Course.

The first thing the Chinese ask you when they meet you is: 'How much money do you make?' It's a legitimate question to ask in China.

Every man must know how to cook; this is the first thing that we are taught back home.

You can tell the history of people on a plate.

Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player.