Quotes About Tradition

Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?

I make a mean Irish soda bread every Christmas and give it out to friends and family.

People have their special room for Christmas. One year my mum left her present on the arm of the sofa and it was still there the following Christmas!

Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone.

I was raised like a little soft French kid, if you want to know.

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'

Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.

My parents worked and sold and hustled; they were gone from the morning, and I pretty much took care of myself. But in a Korean household, you're always eating with your family no matter what, and you're always cooking. And our food is not one you can just open a package and eat right away; a lot of our food takes time to develop.

I like to wear my dad's shoes to auditions as sort of a lucky thing. I feel like I'm on solid ground.

Common endeavour, solidarity and respect are the hallmarks of the Labour tradition.

There are certain practices that may be historically acceptable to some people but that have no place in our culture.

It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.

Some things have never changed in India. Melody, for one. The sound has changed, the rhythm has changed, and lyrics have become more contemporary.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

I cook a very exotic Hyderabadi rice dish called Hyderabadi biryani, which takes an entire day to cook, and the last time I cooked it was multiple years ago, but someday I'll cook it again.

Someday I will get married, and I should be able to watch my films with my children, mother-in-law, and father-in-law.

I remember talking to old-school African American grandpops, and they're just like, 'When I saw my wife, I looked up from across the street, and I said, 'That girl gon' be my wife someday.' And we've been married 45 years.' Like, what? That's all it took?

One's heritage and roots is something to be proud of and cherished.

My Indigenous heritage is something I hold close to my heart.

And this fine young prince had fallen in love with a Nobody from Nowhere -- as princes sometimes do, though not as often as romantic tradition would have you believe.

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.

I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.