Quotes About Tradition

Once, no self-respecting puncher considered himself dressed for work until he had his feet inside of a pair of $15 boots made by one of the favorite boot-makers, whose merits they discussed about the camp fires night after night.

Buy one pair of knickers or underpants from Marks & Spencer. Then you'll truly be like a Brit!

Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.

My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.

I don't think Indian parents will accept Veena Malik as their bahu. After all, she's a Pakistani national!

Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.

I definitely have my Palestinian gene. I love to play host.

Holiday drinking in my family happens about as often as Sarah Palin is spotted reading the 'New York Times.' Neither of my parents are big drinkers, probably because they each had a parent that was.

When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.

Mother's Day routine is usually a lot of flour, eggs, and a big mess in the kitchen. That's what it involves in our house. Making sure that mom has her pancakes and coffee.

We always make a hot breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, the whole deal. We like to have that time in the morning together as a family.

We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.

I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something.

Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.

I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.

Easter egg hunts and parades are nothing new to any household or city, however nobody does it better then the Big Apple.

We have been teaching 'Paradise Lost' and 'Julius Caesar' to the students but we are not teaching them 'Kalidas' or Indian drama and epics.

In India, tradition is paramount. Husband-wife relationship is okay. They do not allow girls to go out.

When I was a kid, we called every teacher, every parent - anyone over the age of 20, it seemed - 'Mr. or Mrs. so-and-so.'

As I've gotten older, I've come to grips that the unexamined life is what works for most people. Most take what they learned in school, get a job, marry, buy a house, have a family, become a great parent, serve their god, community and country, hang with friends, and live a good life. And for them that's great.

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.

Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood.