Quotes About Tradition

If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Day of the Dead. Sounds a little spooky doesn't it? It's actually one of the most colorful and joyous of Mexican holidays.

I played a sport for most of my adult life that required me to work on two of the biggest holidays in America, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

I came from a Halloween-friendly home. My dad, Spencer, was a U.S. Marine captain. But when it came to Halloween, my dad had a soft spot. He would take his three sons and friends on escapades on Halloween night.

It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.

When I was a child, I used to help my mother decorate our house and prepare an elaborate spread of pretty lamps and flower rangolis.

I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.

I celebrate Diwali in a way that spreads happiness to those around me.

For more than 300 years Qawwali music and Sufism have been deeply anchored in my family's roots and we spread it around to the public.

Throughout history, particularly in the last 2,000 years, Jews have been key in adapting local foods to Jewish sensibilities and dietary laws and then spreading them.

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.

Since I was a little girl, my family has taken a holiday to Cornwall every spring half-term.

Tradition matters. To me it's not a limiting force; it's a springboard.

I'm 100% a sprinter... an old school one, not one of these new guys that can climb and sprint.

Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn't have to work. It's such a nice - and rare - treat!

Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.

I don't cook ribs in my own home. I let my dad cook the ribs. He's from St. Louis, Missouri. I like to use a grill, but that's my dad's domain.

I come from a city like St. Louis, where they consider themselves great baseball fans.

We joke that St. Louis people love their own.