Quotes About Tradition

I love the experience and history that comes with selecting and enjoying a great bottle of wine.

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.

There's this long tradition of... even 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which many people consider the best kids' picture book of all time. It was considered revolutionary, and some libraries wouldn't carry it. But it's a classic because it taps into empowerment for kids, kids facing dangers and winning.

I think winning at Wimbledon's huge. This is the biggest tournament in tennis for so many different reasons. You can see the history around the grounds. The Village around you, everyone lives for it.

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.

On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l'amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

There has been a lot of talk of the four-day Tests but I like five-days. I don't make the decisions of how it all works out but five-day Tests is what it is all about.

The best thing about high school football in the state of Texas is the whole town shuts down, and there's shoe polish all over businesses and stores. Everyone rallies around you.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.

Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud.

If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.

Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.

My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.

I grew up in a little town in east Texas where it was really not on the table to question certain things like whether you should eat meat or not.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

Once you coach football in Texas, you fall in love with it.

All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.

My husband doesn't text... It's always phone calls. I like that because you hear the voice the old-fashioned way.

None of my friends are big posters - we're old school. We text, phone and meet up and have a beer or have a curry.