Quotes About Tradition

I grew up in Zurich until I was 12, and I've always come to Vorderer Sternen for a sausage, a hunk of bread, and some mustard.

I grew up in a church. My mom is a minister so she would make us go to every possible church she could muster.

My family members are vegetarians, but I like mutton and chicken seekh kebabs.

The past is always recycled. I'm just taking what the people I looked up to did and translating it for my generation.

Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation.

I have always listened to elders in my life.

I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.

Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.

The kitchen was the center of our household. I spent all of my time there growing up.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

I am from Banaras and I have seen several aghoris. They are mysterious and their way of life is quite intriguing.

China, hidden and mysterious, has always interested me.

There's something mysterious about ninjas because they're deadly and they're scary.

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.

Creativity is not a mysterious thing, it's a historical thing.

I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.

Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands.

The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.

Mythology is part of our heritage, part of our identity at times because anywhere in India you will find the name of Rama or Krishna in one or the other form.

If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.