Nigella Lawson Quotes

I don't like change.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.

I guess I crave stability.

I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.

I always miss any kind of constant, especially now that I'm a film-maker who travels all the time. I'm always tempted to go to Catholic churches, although I despise the religion. But you want to go there just because it's the one thing in your life that's never changed.

It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

I like having a routine, because everything else... is so unpredictable.

Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

People need islands of stability during periods of rapid change.

When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.

For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

When mom is cooking, we are more in a routine. You can better relax when you go through things like you usually do. It is more comfortable.

One thing I'm very grateful for is that I know, every time I leave, my wife is going to keep my kids happy, and whenever I get home, they are going to miss me.

I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing of the familiar suddenly becomes real comforting.

My relationship with God and my parents, that's what keeps me together. I know that everything could end as soon as it starts.