Quotes About Tradition

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

Green has always been my mom's favorite color. My father, aunt and I have gotten her jade, emerald, and peridot pieces over the years, and we always seem to be on the lookout.

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

Myths and legends die hard in America.

Those who fear the new are the ones who have mastered the old.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

Sex before marriage is wrong? Would you buy a car without test driving it?

Old fishermen never die, they just smell that way.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Je fis comme eux avec cet air naturel d'un libre-penseur dans une église, lequel ne connaît pas la messe, mais se lève quand tout le monde se lève et se met à genoux un peu après que tout le monde s'est mis à genoux.

One could see that the ideas which the mediaeval artist and the mediaeval peasant (who had survived to cook for us in the nineteenth century) had of classical and of early Christian history, ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.

Time has a way of evening things out, the simple ways endure, and the fancy pants with his smart new way falls by the roadside. The best way to tell how long a thing will last is ask how long it's been around for. The newest things end soonest. And things that have been around for a good long while will last awhile to come.

La vida entera transcurre en la cocina

Lidia, this is how America has to cook Italian." And with this wonderful book, she showed us all how.

Marcella Hazan

Marcella recalls in her writings and interviews that she had very little interest in food growing up, but did have vivid memories of her tiny grandmother standing on a crate, rolling pasta into silky sheets that were almost as big as a bedspread.

and the differences between rolling pasta by hand versus with a machine.

Italians love to grow and eat vegetables, and in each of the twenty regions of the country, there is a favorite one.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.