Quotes About Tradition

My mother didn't play being disrespectful to women. I was around grandmas and aunts. You learned pretty quick to be respectful!

'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.

The crown of lamb has always been a quintessential Christmas dish, and growing up in India, we would read about lamb when learning about the holiday.

It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

I credit where I'm from so much for my outlook on life, my personality, the rawness and the countryness about me. All these quirky things are because of where I'm from.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

My parents have mellowed quite a bit, but, growing up, there was a sense that the only real professions were doctor, engineer, lawyer. Those were your choices.

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.

I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

Me and my dad, we'd go to the dirt bike races every year. I mean we'd go probably too much every year. And he would make me listen to all country music.

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

Horse racing is waning in popularity.

It makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today.

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.

It's far nicer to congregate around a card table than a television. It takes me back to my childhood, when we'd play family card games like Racing Demon.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

Look at the great tradition of Western political philosophy. Those people were all immersed in revolutionary movements. Most weren't career academics - often, they were too radical to be accepted in the academy. Rousseau's books were banned. Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill couldn't hold academic positions because they were atheists.

Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical change, until someone has told them what it will lead to.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

The new national campfire - radio.