Quotes About Tradition

I listened to gospel music because that was just our culture, you know? My parents are pastors.

Nothing could be more French than pastry.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.

I could grow my own patch, make some apple pies and start selling them at the local country fair.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

I think the Patriot Way definitely makes its way into the Hogan household.

Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when we're kind of the whole world's city there.

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention.

If you grew up in Boston, you actually grew up thinking that Patriots' Day is a major American holiday, sort of like the other Fourth of July.

Patriots' Day is the essence of Boston, a Massachusetts-only holiday that seems like it was invented to celebrate Boston.

Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.

When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.

Red is a beautiful color when it comes to a saree, but if it's a nice vibrant-colored saree with some beautiful patterns, then I would love to wear it off the screen also.

It scares me how some people don't respect the paths that have been paved for us, and who they've been paved by. It scares me because I don't want it to lose the family oriented feeling and the feeling you get at the Grand Ole Opry listening to Jack Greene or Jim Ed Brown, and thinking, 'Yeah, this is what it's all about.'

Everything we've ever done has been for artistry's sake, and for the greater good and paying homage to those who came before us and paving the way for those who come after us.

It's funny because from the time I was a kid, I knew what I was going to do. What's even funnier is that my dad and my grandfather didn't want me to work at the pawn shop, but I was deadset on it.

Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

My mother was a Book of the Month Club devotee. I remember she always looked forward to Pearl Buck's books.

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.