Quotes About Tradition

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

I remember in one parish a terrible row over the ideal size of mince pies, and in another two great ladies dashing trays of pancakes to the vicarage floor in a controversy over whether to roll or to fold. But the real arena for food combat is television.

Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.

I've learnt music, since this is a part and parcel of growing up in a traditional Tamil Brahmin family. In fact, I've even given three exams in music when I was young.

Wearing heavy jewelry and make-up is a part and parcel of Indian films.

I have grown up watching plays at Shivaji Mandir and used to participate in plays in school, too.

Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant.

I was in Kashi to take the holy dip, and when you go to Kashi you have to give up something that you enjoy the most. I gave up shopping, particularly sarees, from thereon. I now only buy the essential items.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

Kentucky isn't particularly religious.

My mom was always trying to figure out ways to make Hanukkah exciting and compete with our neighbors the Kremps, who always had these amazing blow-out Christmas parties.

Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.

I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

Partisanship is nothing new. I grew up in a household where appliances that broke had 'gone Democrat.'

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.

I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.

In our country, you need to be married to be eligible for many things, and to have a right on your partner's life.

For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

Mardi Gras, the drinking, the partying - that scared me.

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.

My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch 'Come Dancing.' It was actually my granny who was the biggest fan; she loved the show, and she passed on her passion for it to me. I loved the dancing but also the frocks and the glamour.