Quotes About Tradition

I always like trying something new, something thats part of the local food scene. If I go to another country, I want to have classic food from that area and really experience what their habits are. The more mom and pop, the better.

There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.

The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.

I think England's always good at making something special.

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal.

That is what I love about golf, you can go play somewhere where all the greats have played.

If your last name is Christ, don't name your son Jesus.

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

Coming from an Italian family, my parents had supermarkets and they said I had to take over as any son should take over the family business - I copped a lot of flak when I said 'no.'

The first book I bought was 'Anne of Green Gables,' an edition that is beautiful and complete - one I hope to read with my son someday, seeing it anew through his eyes.

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film.

Even though we try not to be nostalgic about drawing from old music, I'm always inspired by things like old Cole Porter songs or the words in the Gershwin songs or even Stephen Sondheim, where there's a real craft to them but it isn't only that you're hearing the words it's that it links so well with the music.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

I feel there is a song for every occasion, and India is a land full of music.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.

All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.