Quotes About Tradition

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

Every woman should marry ... and no man.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

We advise tea for the whole nation and for every nation. We advise men and women to drink tea daily; hour by hour if possible; beginning with ten cups a day, and increasing the dose to the utmost quantity that the stomach can contain and the kidneys eliminate. [Quoting Dr. Cornelius Buntekuh, Dutch physician in the pay of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1680]

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

I quickly began to long for the days when I had been able to eat my pizza unmolested without Dad insisting on sit-down dinners.

Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.

Between Derrida and women (who had been so often ignored by the Western philosophical tradition), an alliance was soon to be formed. A personal factor probably played a part in this process.

I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius cook, and I picked that up from her. I make my own sauce, which takes four hours, from a recipe that's been refined over many years. I won't tell anybody what it is.

Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Thanksgiving, for me, is a time for reflection.

I'd like to see us Pakistani actors do more work that reflects our culture, morals and values.

In the 21st century, there will probably be a reflex against the disintegration of traditional European culture. What started as a reaction will come full circle, and there will be a return to the roots.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but at the very least, it means that I do not think Christianity began with the Reformation.

Periodically, I return to the classics for inspiration and refreshment.

All Italians got a refrigerator in the garage. That's what we do.

In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine, actually - so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge.

As I grew up, I always refused to cook Indian food very vehemently, and to this day, I don't cook chapatis at home. I'd always say, 'Why do I have to do it? Why don't the men do it?'

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

It's a matriarchal family, the Carters. A.P. was the original head of the Carter family, but the women were always strong. There were no questions asked in that regard; you had better be strong.