Quotes About Tradition

I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children.

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

My son was named after my father, whose name was Ranbir Raj Kapoor.

My family was disappointed when I named my child Samantha, but they named one of my cousins Rapunzel, and I just felt that was going too far.

Biblical names are hot again.

All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.

When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.

I don't know how it works with the Jews, but here in Beit Safafa, as in every self-respecting Arab community that is respected in turn by the state, there are no street names and no house numbers.

You know how on movie sets there are specific chairs for each person? I hate that. We don't have names on our chairs. We have five chairs. Anyone can sit on them. I think the idea of names on chairs on a set is terrible. It's so dumb. So we got rid of that.

When I was younger I remember rushing back and cooking a meal for the family, and never thinking about having a nap between the shows!

When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?'

Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.

In order to understand the history of the banjo, and the history of bluegrass music, we need to move beyond the narrative we've inherited, beyond generalizations that bluegrass is mostly derived from a Scotch-Irish tradition with influences from Africa. It is actually a complex Creole music that comes from multiple cultures.

NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

I can't really change Nashville.

There's going to be a point in time when I can go to a NHL game in Nashville with my grandkids. That's really special.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

Most people have to learn the words to the National Anthem before they sing it. I learned these words when I was a child in elementary school, so this is something that's been embedded in me ever since I was an adult.

Our national identity is so interwoven with football.

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.