Quotes About Tradition

Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .

I've just been to a debutant ball where all the girls were wearing low-cut gowns. It's clear why they're called coming out parties.

The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

If I'm getting on an airplane or anywhere, really, I have a lunch box and stuff. It's a running joke with my friends and family - everyone gives me lunch boxes for Christmas.

When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner.

The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas.

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed?

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.