Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

I think ‚Hail to the Chief‘ has a nice ring to it.

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

Pop music will never be low brow.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

I love Velveeta cheese.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Where thou art, that is home.

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it’s wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass – the slave narrative – speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying ‚I,‘ meaning ‚we.‘

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.