Quotes About Tradition

As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things.

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

When we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.

What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way, that starts a conversation and gets out of the way.

I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!

The theatre starts every night at half past seven, and I like the rhythm of going to the theatre, parking the car, going to the stage door; I've grown up with all of that. I'd love to do more theatre - I mean, I shouldn't be telling the world that I can't remember lines any more, but I find it more and more difficult, so I don't know.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as kosher, and nothing will change it... I'm not a hypocrite; I state my positions.

God is being siphoned out of the public arena. People don't even say God bless you when you sneeze anymore. I want to be able to lay a Merry Christmas on someone without its feeling like a political statement.

I had an instinct to take my husband's name when I got married. It felt like a romantic statement of pride, love, and permanence and of doing what's always been done in my family.

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

Food is never static; culture is never static.

I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its form, it dies, and so a natural evolution has to occur.

New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has it.

Russian writers enjoy almost sacred status.

Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.

Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

Where I'm from, you go to college, become a carpenter or something, and stay in the district.

In Kazakhstan, once you're someone's guest, it's really hard to get away - everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.

We work so hard to stay true to country music. People can say they don't like it, but they can't say it's not country.