Quotes About Tradition

My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.

The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.

I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

Now all of us in our thirties are the first generation that get to say, "I don't know how I feel about that system, I don't know if I want kids, I don't know if I want to get married."

I think, is a cultural thing, too. You know, everyone wants to see the baby. Everybody's bringing gifts for the baby.

I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

If all the priests go we all want to be married and the pope goes all priests should be married than I say go for it.

I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."

So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.