Quotes About Tradition

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

When I got married and when my sister got married, my mom made us both individual cooking books with all of our family recipes and pictures and kind of the history with our Sicilian family, so that was really special.

I like to collect aprons from different places I go. I first started when I was in Italy because I thought that would be really appropriate. I got a hand-stitched Italian apron from this woman in Sicily who put my name on it, and it said, 'Sicily, Italy.' So now I get one from everywhere I go.

I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.

And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you.

Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old age.

You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

My family on my mother's side is Irish.

On my mom's side, the Jewish side of the family, I come from a family of musicians who are pianists, so I've always loved cultural expression.

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.

Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.

My grandmothers on both sides chose not to go to doctors and passed away. We were entrenched in the Christian Science faith.

I have Irish on both sides of my family.

As I look at the barn in my ninth decade, I see the no-smoking sign, rusted and tilting on the unpainted gray clapboard. My grandfather, born in 1875, milked his cattle there a century ago.

When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding.

Most of the traditional foods we eat on Jewish holidays start out with a seasonal reason as to why we eat them, and later a religious significance is tacked on.

Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which a language is passed on from one generation to the next.

The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

I never imagined I would wear a silk sari as I practice Ahimsa.