Quotes About Tradition

When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.

You know what southern women are? Whiskey in a teacup. We're strong in the inside, but ornate on the outside.

For whatever reason, I encounter Canadian whiskey at hunting camps way more often than I do in restaurants, bars, or homes. Could be the lower price. Could be the mellow character, which lends itself to long hours of fireside sipping. Or it could just be tradition.

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

In my culture, whispering in the company of others is considered rude.

The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.

I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.

I believe in not whistling backstage and not saying the name of the Scottish play.

The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.

I'm the black dude that loves old black culture. I also love old white culture. I just love history, but I'm the guy that wants to bring things back and push them forward.

For lunch I like corned beef, white rice and fried onions, which I've eaten for as long as I can remember. My father used to make it; now, no one does it like me.

The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dining room is exquisite, with immaculate service and ornate details.

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that would seem abhorrent and incredible to a higher and more brotherly civilization.

Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.

I grew up in Morocco. I was born a Muslim, and, every year, I celebrated Christmas in a big white house in the country, halfway between Meknes and Fez.

The Obamas have changed the culture of the White House.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Why would you want to just make up a middle name when the name should be coming from family and previous generations? I think it's really important.

Both my parents worked. So it wasn't like the previous generation where we learned how to cook and bake from our mothers and grandmothers.

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

My great-grandparents have some beautiful sculptures which have come down the generations. They are priceless and whenever I look at them, I am inspired.

Kolkata is a place where you can pretty much find everything. From traditional wear to western wear - you name it and you will get it - that too at pocket friendly prices.

We were always a middle-class family who took pride in our little set-up.