Quotes About Tradition

At our house, we'd always open presents with our Christmas records playing. 'Little Drummer Boy' was one of my favorites when I was a kid because it was about a kid.

Being with the family, running downstairs and opening presents, it was always fun with my brothers.

Indeed, the Royal Family still retain the German custom - introduced by Prince Albert - of opening their presents on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning.

Rakshabandhan is one day in a year I always look forward to... As children, we used to get presents and money, and there would be a full line-up of rakhi brothers, but as I grew older, the excitement was lesser as the love grew deeper.

Children in my family really look forward to Christmas presents and I enjoy becoming their Santa, eating chocolates, playing and spending some time with them. I also meet up with some of my close friends to have good food. That's all about Christmas for me.

Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.

I think there's probably really wonderful music that has been lost due to the lack of preservation methods way back in the day.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

As long as black people preserve their culture in Harlem, Harlem will always be alive.

The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the envelope with gender roles, then I think it will change. But if that's not of interest to a dance-maker, if their interest is to sort of preserve the way things have been done for the past 200 years, then nothing is going to change.

We have to preserve folk in its authenticity. Else folk will become fake.

We must preserve our cultural identity.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

In fact, the only way to inspire people to embrace change is through setting a narrative and telling a story. It can be central to innovation and change, and at the same time it can preserve tradition and memories.

Fidesz's different air and its own culture must be preserved.

There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered that it preserved food. We were sort of handed, in history, this world where everyone knew about salt. And it's not clear exactly how that developed.

Ours is a country with diversified culture and centuries-old tradition, which have to be preserved at any cost.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

There are times when we need to think beyond business and look at preserving culture and languages.

Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office.

My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.