Quotes About Heritage

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

There is a very strong theatre-going tradition in Moscow. It has stayed strong.

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

It's just not our style to put our names on the philanthropy we've done. It's not in the Jewish tradition of tzedakah.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times.

Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers.

I hardly grew up mono-lingually! I was raised religious, so there's a tradition of semi-access to a second language. When I learned my ABCs, they taught us our Aleph-Bet at the same time.

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

America is a country defined by a set of ideas, and when people choose to accept those ideas, they should be able to become Americans, as fully so as any - and perhaps more so than most - regardless of how recently they or their ancestors arrived upon our shores. This is the true American tradition, which as conservatives we must defend.

Something I'm going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.

Boxing is a family tradition. The last five generations down to my dad have been fighters.

One of the problems that comes up time and time again seems to be this notion of being 'pure' Irish. If you are Protestant, born in the Northern part of the island and deeply into the Protestant tradition, that somehow does not make you a legitimate Irish person. Yet there is a huge British influence in parts of the South.

Music always lived with me, like a family tradition.

What I needed and actually need is a discipline of tradition, which is lacking in our civilization. Discipline of tradition and the ceremony of humbleness.

One thing you learn very rapidly in this business is that you are part of a continuing tradition.

The great tradition of Delhi can be seen through its cuisine.