Quotes About Tradition

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

I don't believe in voodoo.

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.

There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.

Although I am a voracious plant predator, one has to realize that there is not a human need for fruits and vegetables: just ask an Eskimo.

I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.

It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

I left home at 18, but I still voted in Kentucky. Every holiday, I came home to Kentucky.

My parents voted conservative for as long as I could remember, so it was an easy decision when I registered at 18 to register as a Republican. In fact, I've often told people I was under the impression that everybody voted Republican.

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

Our kids seldom even get to see a movie. When we go to a movie, it's an event - and we make it an event.

Education is like the pooja ghar for us. We are never going to become a for-profit player in education. It will be akin to selling the pooja ghar.

We have a strong tradition in our country of senior leaders being apolitical, nonpartisan.

Seniority actually means something in the Senate.

I know that India is very sensitive to nudity.

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

I think marriage and live-in relationships aren't really different. It is just a piece of paper that separates the two.

If dinner needs to be served to the father, if clothes need to be ironed, parents ask the girl to do it, not the boy. Why? Equality needs to begin at home.

There is nothing wrong with the name White Settlement, and the majority here is proud of the name.

I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.

My family has always made clothes. Growing up I can remember sewing machines being everywhere.