Quotes About Tradition

About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us.

I wanted long hair my whole life. When I was a little kid, my mom would be like, 'We get our hair cut once a month.' So I just always got my hair cut.

Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus.

You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.

I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us.

I always find that the more Jewish you are, the more people respect you.

Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking.

If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light.

We go to church every year on Christmas morning.

My grandmother, Erminia 'Minnie' Morocco, treated cookies like a form of currency.

The hardest situation to pick up a girl in is ... in church and in Morocco on Ramadan. On Ramadan or one of those religious days? Try to pick up a girl is bananas.

I get an especially acute case of agita at the thought of a mortar and pestle.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

The most beautiful thing in Cambodia isn't the country - it's the Cambodian people.

The most important thing is culture.

Having a sit down, no screens, home cooked dinner is one of the most powerful things you can do as a parent and I believe it's the most important activity you can do as a family.

Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.

When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

I don't like the concept of crackers. Diwali is a festival of lights but we have a lot of sound too. I don't know how and why. It isn't good for Mother Earth especially the animals around.

My mother-in-law is an awesome cook, but I have grown up eating the food cooked by my mother. I must say that both of them have their own area of specialisation, when it comes to cooking.

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers.

To talk of food is to talk of mothers, at least for me.