Quotes About Tradition

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."

In my experience, there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea.

Castles trump feminism every time.

The sights and sounds of home.

Divorced? I'm a good Catholic girl, Louisa. We don't divorce. We just make our men suffer for all eternity!

My aunt Lina will be waiting there with her apron open, ready to catch the head. She makes the best souse—that's from the tongue, ears and feet—this side of the Cumberland Gap. But my favorite part of the whole day, since I was small, is when Daddy tips all the innards into a tub and we get to choose the best bit to roast.

I felt grateful for my parents. I felt an almost umbilical pull towards home, the comfort offered by a traditional family and Sunday lunch on the table.

Divorced? I'm a good Catholic girl, Louisa. We don't divorce. We just make our men suffer for all eternity." She

my dad seems to think that's not the greatest reference. But in my experience there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea…

Sono poche le cose che non si possono sistemare con una tazza di tè preparata come si deve

The woman of the mountains leads a difficult life, while the man is lord of the household. Whether he works, visits, or roams through the woods with dog and gun is nobody's business but his own. . . . He is entirely unable to understand any interference in his affairs by society; if he turns his corn into "likker," he is dealing with what is his. • WPA, The WPA Guide to Kentucky

Places are at once the medium and the message of cultural life. They are where cultures, communities, and people root themselves and give themselves definition.

She also tells us of the Oyster Festival, which happens every year. By the way she describes it, with parade and bonfire, it sounds a bit Wicker Man to me.

It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

December 25 is National Jews Go to the Movies Day.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Yra laik?, ir mano nuomone, mes dabar esam tokiuos laikuos, kai konservatiškumas, "atsilikimas" yra kur kas pažangiau, kur kas avangardiškiau, negu bet kokie viešai pripažinti "pažang?s" jud?jimai ar reiškiniai.