Quotes About Tradition

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

I grew up in the Middle East where my mother, who also worked as a journalist, had to wear long dresses with long sleeves every time she left the house.

I have never slept in a bed with anybody. Even when I was married we slept in separate beds.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

But if you're from New York and you grew up here, you have it built into you - what a slice of pizza is supposed to be - in a way that people from outside of New York don't.

In our family a whole ham on the bone would be bought three days before Christmas, and then stored in a pillow case and left in the fridge so anyone can take the huge thing out and slice it.

I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots.

It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.

I'd happily cover the British Open every year until St. Andrews slides into the sea or Scotland runs out of beer, whichever happens first.

I don't think the monarchy is tawdry in the slightest. I think the monarchy is hugely important for Britain.

As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.

Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.

My mum was slightly disgruntled with cooking and being in the kitchen.

I was brought up in a slightly older style. I don't play with my collar up.

Christmas is a time for slipping into familiar patterns.

Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.

Seabeck is slow to change.

My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.

Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.

My husband, Vivek Deora - he is very meticulous about cooking, and slowly and lovingly makes his family recipes, handed down generations.

I think with bridal fashion, it moves very slowly.

Our country is an agriculture-based country. And slowly, we are forgetting our roots.

Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep almost every social detail they needed to know in their heads.

I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.