Quotes About Tradition

I love dressing up around the holidays! My friends also really like to get dressed up. It's an excuse to get fancy.

I wanted to make a video for the holidays, but none of the traditional holiday songs were moving me.

Growing up, most of our family holidays were staycations in the U.K.

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.

I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.

The holidays are only holy if we make them so.

I did 'Oh Holy Night,' which is one that I grew up listening to because I was in choir in high school and we would do Christmas concerts and competitions every year.

Every St. Patrick's Day in my hometown is such a huge thing. You know, it was like Christmas, but in green.

Everyone has a reason why their particular sacred cow is the sacred cow to be honored.

With 'Shinobi,' we hope to make a film that honors the essence of the games.

Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

My children don't even know who Fairuz is - a horrifying thought.

Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.

There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.

My mother grew up around horses and exposed my sister and I to riding early on. It was very important to her.

The circus was born with animals, horses at the start. This is part of our cultural heritage. It's a whole, with clowns and acrobats.

The English take the breeding of their horses and dogs more seriously than they do their children. God forbid that the wrong drop of blood should get into their labrador. But their children marry everywhere.

Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.

In Haryana, there are two things that are most important in a household. We don't care if we have a big house and several cars or not. But for us, in every household, the sons need to be strong, and the animals need to be in good health.