Quotes About Tradition

We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.

You're trying to grow up, and you don't want to be like your parents, and that gets mixed up with being Korean... They brought their values from Korea, and I accepted them because I didn't know anything more. But as I grow older, I feel more Korean every year; it's very strange.

I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.

There's never been a time when there hasn't been ritualistic dancing, and I think clubbing is our modern incarnation of that.

I used to call my grandmother 'Nana,' so that seems right to me, but maybe I'll just be 'Jade', in that modern way.

I live in the modern world, and I appreciate the most cutting-edge parts of it. But I also like to check out as much as I can.

I'm really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don't make them like that any more.

I'm a big fan of my mom's cooking.

My mom and grandma have made clothes their whole life. My grandma had her own factory.

When you're going to meet your man's mom and dad, it's always nice to bring them something homemade and from the heart.

The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.

My own schooldays convince me that I would not send a child of mine to be educated by a grinning monk any more than I would send him to a mullah in Iran.

I think that when you talk to people about Monopoly, they love talking about their memories associated with it. And for me, I'm the same way. I mean, when I think about Monopoly, I think of my family playing at the holidays.

In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism.

Shabbat dinner is something that we do once a month.