Quotes About Tradition

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Legends can live and breathe only on verbal terrain

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.

As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

When I took the job as Estée Lauder's creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love taking our heritage and making it modern.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.