I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.
The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home.
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.
Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity.
What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
