Quotes About Tradition

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.

If I were a dad, I'd have my kids watch 'I Love Lucy' and 'The Honeymooners.'

I would love to host someone's bar mitzvah. I would love to do that.

My kids all do love to hunt and fish. When they get together, I think that's what they get together more for than anything else.

Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper.

I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in among some of my favorite authors.

I always love China, especially the old China.

Love the horses, but don't ride on them! Riding the horses is a culture, a wrong culture!

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it's acid in the face—who will love them now?

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Have you ever done any running or jogging?" Hawk asked. [...] "I walk," she told him. "I've never had any desire to run or jog." "Why not? Don't you like to sweat?" "As a matter of fact, I don't." She smiled. "Besides, Southern ladies never sweat. We don't even perspire." "Then what the hell do you do?" "We glow.

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?

And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks. Forgive me. I don't mean to get upset. But you are taking my world away from me, piece by little piece, and sometimes it just pisses me off. Sorry.

It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. People who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their hair look like a wig.

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.

Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things oddly.