Quotes About Tradition

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

My grandmother is bilingual, but she preferred to speak Spanish at home, so she would speak to us in Spanish, and everyone responded in English, sort of like what happens on 'Jane.'

I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

Usually, family films have characters speaking with each other with much dignity and respect.

Obviously Manchester United's tradition and history speaks for itself.

Most of my family speaks fluent Malayalam.

And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I were raised.

Chicago Bears tradition speaks for itself.

While I appreciate what goes into making high-end Indian dishes, street food has a special place in my heart. Being raised in India, street food played an integral part in my life while growing up.

Marist is a special place.

United is a special place.

Since childhood, Claridge's has always been a very special place for me. I associate it with celebrations, happy times.

I love Christmas. At this very special time of year, when the sun appears only fleetingly to those of us living in the northern hemisphere, I feel a deep connection with ancient ancestors.

Christmas is a special time of year for everyone - I remember getting my first BMX bike when I was a kid, and it was the best present ever.

Every community has its own specialty and it's not just for clothing obviously, but for the home, etc.

If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.