Quotes About Tradition

Anyone who knows our family knows this: we eat ALL the time!

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.

I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.

I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

There's nothing better than a Nebraska summer so I wanted to live there in the summer time and visit my family and go to as many Nebraska games as I could.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

I love playing in Japan! It's always like being in the ancient past and the future at the same time. And the fans sing along to every word.

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.

Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.