Quotes About Tradition

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain.

When you see a photograph of a football crowd at a Saturday afternoon game in August 1963, you've got 40,000 men in trilbies. That's paradise, man.

Before the '80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

I grew up in a very cultural household, but part of our culture is that we don't really take photos.

I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase.

Think of the phrase 'dining institution' as a badge of honour. One that is earned after many years, and many more hearts won.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play.

My mom, grandma, great-grandma - we're all named Mary, and we all play piano and sing.

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

I cook stuff that I picked up from my husband's mother. I thought that would be a good way to his heart, you know. I love to cook Italian and French, also.

Most of my jewellery is what I picked up in India.

It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.

Before refrigeration, most food was heavily salted. Many of these salted foods have persisted, such as sauerkraut, pickles, cured anchovies, cheese, salted butter, ham, corned beef, sausage, and bacon. We still eat these things because we like them. But they are no longer the mainstay of our diet.

I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

Music was a big part of my family with gatherings, picnics, barbecues.

The most beautiful thing in the world is my grandmother's apple pie.

I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.

One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's pie, and I really adored that.

I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

I'm as American as apple pie.

There was a period when I had apple pie as a treat every day of the week. I mean, like, a family apple pie.