Quotes About Tradition

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

Stability means respecting precedents.

My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

Cooking is an important part of a good, stable family life. I like to get the family together; there's a huge nurturing element in it.

I wanted to put together a Christmas album that went back to the stable in Bethlehem and the source of it all. It kind of gets lost sometimes.

Opening Day was a big thing. I came to a lot of Orioles games. I grew up a couple blocks from here, so I was always coming down to the stadium. I always made it down for Opening Day until I was a little bit older and I had ball. But when I was younger, I always missed school.

If you want to see a bunch of happy Americans, go out to opening day at any baseball stadium in the land.

There's nothing like Opening Day in Dodger Stadium. You can't really describe it.

We always pray before we go on stage. It's just something that I've always done. For me, it's a big thing, and the guys in the band seem to appreciate doing it, so we do it at every show.

Well, I think mac-and-cheese is that universal piece. Especially in The South, people stake their reputations on mac-and-cheese.

In Alabama, when you come out of the hospital, they have to stamp your birth certificate with either Alabama or Auburn, or you don't leave.

Bringing back stamp collecting and bringing back bridge seems like a pretty good way to fight the modern world.

I have memories of the time when I was younger and when I believed in Santa Claus, which was the best part of Christmas. Back then, I wrote to Santa every year, hoping that my mom would post the letter with a stamp to the North Pole!

You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.

My dad was a proper old English gentleman, even though he was from the Caribbean. He used to stand up and salute during the Queen's Christmas speech.

It's a great shame that the head of our established church is not actually prepared to stand up and fight for our Christian culture in this country.

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.

'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs.

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.

Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.