Quotes About Tradition

All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames.

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

I'd always been interested in Nigeria's past.

My nickname is 'Chief' because my father was a chief in Nigeria.

It can be a bit sententious in the Nigerian household, to the point where you feel like with any wrong step you've set yourself back so far. It's like everything has to be done right.

I come from a performing family. My parents are Nigerian, and their parents and their parents - and it's all about performance in their culture, you know. The music. The dancing... you're told to stand out at family gatherings and perform in some sort of way. You're just kind of born into it.

We went to Baptist church as a family, and that took up so many nights a week.

My dad's European, so when I was a little kid, I couldn't wear things like Nike, so I grew up wearing Adidas.

I shoot the same rifle I've shot since I killed my first deer with it when I was nine.

I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.

Nintendo is a company of Kyoto craftsmen, and what we don't want to do is, if we know we can make something better, we don't want to leave that behind.

All of my dishes kind of have the same thing going on - I'm always going to give you the same things that I grew up with or that my mom used to make. I'm not going to use nitrogen in my tacos.

Culture knows no boundaries.

To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

There is no doubt in my mind that I was going to do what my father did, but it wasn't kind of a family-business thing.

My mother knitted a lot, but I never did; it was no fun.

Foreigners have no idea of the diversity of India and its culture. We hope to be able to give them a glimpse of that diversity.

Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'

I have no idea if I will go for an arranged marriage or love marriage.

There is no pressure from my family to get married.

I'm not traditional at all. It's not that I'm against marriage; it just never mattered that much to me. If I was dating someone who getting married was very important to them, then absolutely. I'd have no problem. I love the idea of finding someone to be a great father figure to Jasper and to share my life with.

father loved to watch old westerns and the evening news

head back into the house. They were in their sixties, the kind of people who rushed outside to scold a kid who happened to walk across their grass to retrieve a Frisbee or baseball. And even though they were Jewish, they decorated their house with Christmas lights in addition to the menorah they