Quotes About Tradition

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs.

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

My mom is Asian and loves all of the throwaway parts of the animal, so she actually thanks me for saving her the neck and other parts.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.

I like coming back home. Do it every July Fourth. Everybody's cooking, and I'm just being Ben, just Ben, like the little kid I was running around the neighborhood.

In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their attention that people would use flattering euphemisms for them, such as 'the people of peace,' 'the little people,' and 'the good neighbors.'

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.

My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.

I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni Netanyahu, about Hannah Senesh and S. Y. Agnon. I want every child to know how to read the Bible, and know how to make Kiddush.

My mother told me when I left for college, 'Never forget your roots,' and I never have.

I tell my kids and my grandkids, 'Never forget where you came from. Never forget your roots.' My grandkids, they didn't go through the hard times as much as other ones in our family did. One thing is to just never forget where you came from and you never forget that nothing is more important than your relationship with Jesus Christ.

I was told that karate has a courtesy: 'Start with a bow and end with a bow.' This is something important we value in our lives, because we never forget courtesy and a feeling of gratitude wherever we go.

It's definitely important to never forget where you're coming from, where you were born and raised.

I'll never take another picture with a mall Santa after having a cup of joe with the confirmed real big guy.

For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.

My grandfather lived in New England all his life and was a Vermonter.

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.