Quotes About Tradition

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

Love is just an institution.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

Habit is everything, even in love.

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

This is Christmas – the season of perpetual hope.

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.

Barlow Corners was the perfect American small town, unveiling the perfect American small-town statue of their own local Revolutionary War hero.

The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries. A singular nation, you know.

I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased--short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

When a new Duchess is brought to Tankerton, the oldest elm in the park must be felled.

and, let us not forget, the culmination of nearly five thousand years of continuous Chinese history.

Here is a scene that happens in Brazil thousands of times each day: It's early morning. Time for young Marcos to leave for school. As he gathers his books and heads for the door, he stops by his father's chair. He looks into his father's face. "Benção, Pai?" (Blessing, Father?) Marcos asks. The father raises his hand. "Deus te abençoe, meu filho" (God bless you, my son), he says.