Quotes About Tradition

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.

My dad was raised Orthodox in Atlanta. He speaks Hebrew. He speaks Yiddish. He married a Jewish woman who is not Orthodox, so I was brought up by two different kinds of Jews.

The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

I did not grow up singing Yiddish.

I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.

My mom was a practicing Hindu, and my dad was a Catholic who practiced yoga meditation and karma yoga. My earliest memories are of the bright colors, beautiful sounds, and fragrant aromas of both Christian and Hindu celebrations.

I am an Indian, so I do yoga.

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

One student was mixing my yoga up with other kinds, and I said, 'No, you cannot do that.' You cannot put calamari in the sushi and call it sushi.

Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.

Yoga has been done for thousands of years and if people keep doing it, it must mean it works.

I have been doing yoga long before variants like power yoga became popular.

I come from the era when that continental stuff, the skimmed yogurt and a croissant, was a healthy start to the day.

Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.

My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.

The base of raita is traditionally unstrained whole-milk yogurt, but I like to break away from convention and reach for whatever fermented dairy I have on hand. Ive used buttermilk, Greek yogurt, sour cream, and any combination thereof for the base of my raita.

If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn't suffer fools gladly.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

In New York, if you go into an Italian-American neighbourhood, the code of the streets is respect and reputation.

Whether were eating tacos at a roadside stand outside of Houston, or having barbecue somewhere down south, or beautiful fried eggs in New York City, theyre regional specialties that remind us of the history of this country, and the bounty it has to offer.

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.