Quotes About Tradition

I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation.

The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course.

The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say, "My daughter is a nurse," or "My daughter is a school teacher," or even, "My daughter is a chemical engineer." You could not say, "My daughter is a philosopher." That was something that had ended with the Greeks and Romans

Axiom : hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. But I include in the word bourgeois , the bourgeois in blouses as well the bourgeois in coats. It is we and we alone , that is to say the literary men , who are the people, or to say it better : the tradition of humanity.

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.

I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

The Carter family history means a lot to me.

I was born and raised up in a small farm.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such.

If a farmer is happy within a corporate set-up, he can choose that. If he is happy with his arthiya, he can stick with that.

I would love it if my son becomes a farmer in today's day and age.

I come from a family of farmers.

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.

I've been fascinated with Maori culture since I was a kid.

I have always been fascinated by Shaker design and the culture of the Shakers.

Britain's fascination with its changing language is renowned.

There was no concept of fashion and catwalk shows where I came from.

I belonged to a conservative Punjabi family and I didn't want to get too close to a rich boy who drove fast cars.

I don't think baseball is ever going to be the fast-paced game that football or basketball is. It's never going to be constant action. That's never how the game is played.

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

Father and son games - that was the best day. We'd be dressed at 6 o'clock in the morning. The game would be at 7 o'clock at night... And we'd play at, like, 5.

Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too.