Quotes About Tradition

I think that in France, we should do like the French people.

Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.

North of England, you're brought up on fish and chips. Friday or Saturdays every week, it was a treat.

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

My kids would come in from school and sit on the floor in front of the TV and line up duck call boxes and put the stickers on the duck call and then put them in the boxes.

I find it ever so archaic, chanting, but I can see why people do it. I love seeing people getting all their frustrations out for the week.

A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.

We don't do funerals in my family.

There are no foodies at funerals.

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.

To make sure I learned the etiquette of grieving, Granny took me with her to the many funerals she attended. O Death, where is thy sting? Search me. I grew up looking at so many corpses that I still feel a faint touch of surprise whenever I see people move.

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

She said that she did not wish for any monuments to the Hurlbird family. At the time I thought that that was because of a New England dislike for necrological ostentation.

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

Granma and Granpa wanted me to know of the past, for "If ye don't know the past, then ye will not have a future. If ye don't know where your people have been, then ye won't know where your people are going.

The Indian never fishes or hunts for sport, only for food. Granpa said it was the silliest damn thing in the world to go around killing something for sport. He said the whole thing, more than likely, was thought up by politicians between wars when they wasn't gittin' people killed so they could keep their hand in on killing. Granpa said that idjits taken it up without a lick of thinking at it, but if you could check it out—politicians started it. Which is likely. We

Even gelato, which used to be divine all over Italy, is not dependably good anymore.

As Garibaldi says,] 'Sleep, my dear Chevalley, sleep, that is what Sicilians want, and they will always hate anyone who tries to wake them...

ongoing drama of life in a small town.

Natale con i tuoi, Pasqua con chi vuoi—Christmas with your own, Easter with whomever you wish.

Perhaps you'll apprentice to a healer when you're older, Grete suggested. I'd say you have the gift for it. Hen reddened, then seemed suddenly fascinated with a speck on her shoe. Be nice to have a gift for something, she said after a moment. But they don't let girls apprentice, now, do they? Grete harrumphed. A bunch of fools, the lot who came up with that system. You lose half the world's brainpower that way.

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

The Fremen have a simple, practical religion," he said. "Nothing about religion is simple.

Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.