Quotes About Tradition

Twas the night before Thanksgiving.

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we're thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what!

I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

It's always tea-time.

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

Rae Chorze-Fwaz has preserved and passed on their secret meditation techniques in oral tradition from the time of Atlantis until he present day.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

In Hawaii they say, "aloha." That's a nice one, It means both "hello" and "good-bye" Which just goes to show, if you spend enough time in the sun you don't know whether you're coming or going.