Quotes About Tradition

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.

When all is ready, the leaders walk out to the dance place.

Juventus will never be like Real Madrid or Barcelona because its history and playing style speak for itself.

If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.

As an outsider, you don't think of Australia as being old-fashioned - it's only when you've been here for a period of time when you realise there are issues.

Fashion is a real passion in my family. I never even realised it was something glamorous until much later. For me, it was my family's job.

I realised it is impossible to live with the rules they give Saudi women. Just impossible. You trying to do everything by the book, but you can never stay pure.

When I grew up, I realised what an amazing thing my parents did. It was such a big deal for my mom, a middle class woman, to decide to leave her children and husband to go and do her Ph.D. for three years. And my dad, who is even more middle class, a traditional South Indian, to let his wife do that.

To me, it felt that if I give up my name, I am also sending a message to my children, saying my name was not important enough as your father's; I am not as important as your father. That is a message we are passing down generation after generation without realising.

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

Certainly, gospel was my background - is my background.

When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in communities - how we treat one another when we are not being stupid - what I find is deeply Aboriginal.

There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

Just as my father read to us as children, I used to read to my own children and now read to my grandchildren.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

I don't think there's anything less attractive than a man over-dyeing things on his face, so I'm going to try, for as long as I can, to age as my male forefathers before me. My father started getting grays when he was in his 30s, as did my grandfather before him, so I don't want to look perpetually young.

My grandfather was a great chef.

I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn't carry on her education.