Quotes About Tradition

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

India lives in several centuries at the same time.

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.