Quotes About Tradition

I am not interested in anyone and will let my mother decide about my marriage.

I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.

When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation.

I think I'd have to say my favorite IWC. They have been around for so long and the craftsmanship is top notch. A watch maker that has been in business over 100 years has to know what they are doing.

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

What attracted us and allured us to Old Trafford are all the great things, all the great history, and all the great heritage. People keep saying 'what are you going to change?' And the thing I keep saying is people aren't going to notice a change.

It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.

The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out their pro-Christmas crusade.

When I was growing up we didn't have cable. All that came on Saturday morning was Notre Dame football, and I was there every time to watch it.

We're the house that's playing Christmas music by November 1.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing up, I never saw my dad without a mustache.

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.

Nowadays you never see players playing cards. We used to sit around playing cards together all the time. But I can't fight that, I have to adapt and change.

I think nowadays it's very important to re-connect with ourselves and our roots.

Nowadays so many things are happening all over the place. I'd sound really like a regressive babuji if I say stuff like the institution of marriage is crumbling.

Growing up, I thought salt belonged in a shaker at the table and nowhere else.

We all have to consciously make efforts to identify our roots and nurture them.

Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.