Quotes About Tradition

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

I personally have a silver idol of Lord Ganesh that I reuse every year. Don't measure your devotion with the size of the idol.

Usually, Hmong funerals last several days and our whole family comes together for it. It's a Hmong tradition to fold thousands of little paper boats with silver or gold paper that represent money the person could take into the afterlife, but we couldn't do that because of the coronavirus.

The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews.

When dressing a table take out your old pieces of silver, hand-me-down linens and old candelabras, it will make your meal that much more special.

I love my silver payals which I've been wearing for years now.

I come from a family of doctors and engineers, and everyone expected me to take up a similar career. That was the most natural thing to do!

We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.

I'm European, and my roots are in Europe. But Boston is one of the most, in a way, European American cities. And I think I'll find a lot of similarities, historically and architecturally and tradition-wise.

Simon is clearly in the tradition of romantic archetypes, your Darcys, your Heathcliffes.

I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - people are reminded of their childhood.

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

Those who are nostalgic for traditional folkways have forgotten how hard our forebears fought to escape them.

Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over. Not to me. Not to them.

Israel is not only about Bibi and wars; it is about a new generation finding itself through its culture and its food.

It's true what the natives say. Every time someone takes your picture, the camera steals a little bit of your soul." "That explains Bette Davis.

I have no desire to eat it beneath pictures of the proprietor sulking in a bandana, which is why I tend to avoid Marco Pierre White's places. I agree with the singer Paul Heaton, who remarked recently, 'women have been cooking for a thousand years and no one ever mentioned it. Men have been cooking for ten minutes and they never stop bloody going on about it'.

believe I lasted three Sundays before my aunt was asked to take me down the street to the Presbyterians.