Quotes About Tradition

I always vowed I would never get married because no marriage in my family had worked, really. But you get to a place in your relationship where you're like, 'OK, it's time.'

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

I will get married to a guy of my parents' choice.

I'm the kind of guy who'll go to a courthouse and get married, but for women, it's different. It means a lot to them.

My father worked as a mechanical draftsman at Mazagaon Docks and is a Catholic. My mum was a Muslim, so my parents broke quite a few rules to get married.

I am all for love marriage. I am not the kind of person who can be instructed to fall in love. I am not saying that it cannot happen. Most of my family members met the person and decided to get married. Their marriages have worked beautifully.

It has this royal feeling - one doesn't get this feel anywhere else; the culture here is so rich and the people here are so respectful - that was one of the reasons why I decided to get married at the Tijara Fort in Alwar.

If I had to do it all over again, I would still get married at 16.

Since I had been little, everybody wanted me to get married.

Arranged marriages are ones where you got to learn who the person is after you actually get married, which can be challenging.

I am being chided every day at home to get married.

Thanksgiving Day, we do a huge lunch. Big family, like, 60 people, we get together. Everybody brings a covered dish, everybody brings a dessert, and we go all out.

I think it's awesome that we're 50 years into the US Open being the US Open. It hasn't always been here. It's growing every year. Getting better every single year I come here.

I shocked my parents with a lot of things, whether it was becoming an actor or when I was dating someone outside the Egyptian community or when I moved away from home before getting married.

The first ghost story I ever heard was from my mother.

Growing up Catholic has been a gift.

It is universal to give gifts as an expression of love. My academic background is anthropology, the study of cultures. We have never discovered a culture where gift-giving is not an expression of love.

We always do a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve, but my mom always gets really nice gifts for it. And we hang out in our PJs on Christmas Day.

Persimmons are pretty present in a lot of Asian cultures, as gifts that you give to people.

I'm a curry and rice girl.

Our family loves Girl Scout cookies and I don't think allowing a boy in the Girl Scouts is a good thing.

While I'm totally up for all things girly, two months of mehendi is a fairly long time!

I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people talking to each other. I try to do both at once.

I believe that you should not be just raised on what the music is right then. You should be raised on what is from your past, what your parents have grown up with, because it's a really big piece of your culture that you need to know about, and I'm glad my mother has done that for me.