Quotes About Tradition

Family gatherings were very important to me growing up.

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

The thing I've always admired about Eagles fans is that it's not fans; it's family. It's generational.

I'm a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That's all we do: we fight.

Only the very best clubs are able to pass the baton of continuity down through the generations.

Across generations, the torch-bearers of Carnatic music have mastered the art form of connection.

We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.

I come from generations of farmers.

I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.

Writing about carrying the past on your back is a manifestation of my Irishness, because we go on and on and will for another two or three generations.

My music translates again and again to younger generations of players because I broke all the rules, and they can break all the rules now, too.

There is a real sense of loss when a family sells a business they've spent generations building. I wanted to get some of that back.

Our country has a rich history and so diversified, which should be acknowledged by the younger generations.

Most people aren't Republicans four generations down from a president.

The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.

There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were 15 years old, but I just don't think music does that. Music is always changing and evolving, just like us as people.

Georgia is one of the best states there is.

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

It took centuries to form the German order.

Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life.

In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great composers don't seem alien.

My passion is from my mom. She was passionate about leaving Germany and coming to America and making a life for her and her family. My father - discipline, a chain of command, it works this way.