Quotes About Tradition

I've always said if a woman is looking for a good husband, she should go for a Jewish man past 60. Jewish men are essentially brought up to love women. Then you rebel against that and become a bit of a bastard. Then at 60, you revert.

I am from a rebel blood line.

I'm a kind of double-breasted rebel in that I've always believed the important thing is that generations react against one another. For instance, there was always something oddly creative about the fact that Hanoverian sons hated their fathers so much.

I think, initially, my rebellion, my rebellion of going to college when my dad would have liked me to stay home and work in the herbs, I think that it was a pretty mild rebellion in the sense that I thought, 'Well, I'm going to go learn how to be a music teacher so that I can come home and do choir.'

Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

I grew up listening to the Neville Brothers and the Rebirth Brass Band.

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.

I like a little chivalry; I like to receive flowers. I like taking care of a son and a husband, and in my judgment, those who recoil from these things don't know what they're missing.

My seven-year-old daughter knows old songs and how the neighborhoods got their names. There are little things: Businesses receive blessings from Hawaiian priests before opening, and everyone's kids have their debut luau. You can't really get through a day without doing something Hawaiian.

During my younger days, I used to massage my mother's feet every day and receive her blessings.

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

I think Chennaiites are the best because the city has a receptive audience.

I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

I was raised cooking my grandmother's food, my mom's recipes.

I love the food of Karnataka and all the side dishes I make at home are recipes I learnt here.

I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?

There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes.

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

My wife was born and raised in Italy until she was about 9, and then she came to America, and her mom was a great cook, and they have great recipes, and whenever her mom would come into town, we would have all these friends just randomly showing up at our house, and eventually we figured out why. They wanted Mama's cooking.