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.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Where thou art, that is home.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

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

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother’s kitchen. If I don’t have time to cook, I’ll just read a cookbook.

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

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Coffee is a language in itself.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

If you like good ol‘ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

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.

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

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Say ‚Toronto‘ or ‚Ontario,‘ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

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.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

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

I’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

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

My mom had Julia Child and ‚The Fannie Farmer Cookbook‘ on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.