Quotes About Tradition

Growing up, everybody would cross the border, even to just do grocery shopping. A lot of traditional American foods stuck with my parents and became part of my upbringing. This all had to do with the proximity to the border. We were an absolute mix of classic Americana, traditional Mexican, and Baja cuisine.

If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life.

Eating together was a big part of my upbringing and a tradition we keep daily amongst the amazing team at Milk Bar.

Singing has been part of my upbringing.

I couldn't bring myself to call him by his first name, that wasn't my upbringing. So I suggested I call him 'Anandji.' He glared at me and said, 'Do I look like a schoolteacher to you?' The next day when I called him 'Dev Saab' he looked around as though he didn't know whom I was addressing.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays, no birth control.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.

The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers.

What I know is that my upbringing was always the man was the head of the family. It's a European tradition. We always look up to the man. But this is old times. Now what I believe is that I'm definitely equal.

My upbringing is such that I feel my husband is superior to me and his mother even more superior.

Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to.

From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.

We had a very strict upbringing.

It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.

I had a very traditional upbringing. Family has always been really important to me.

I grew up as a Muslim: it was quite a conservative upbringing; I didn't wear mini-skirts. But my mum and dad had a good sense of humour and were creative. I guess all of that shaped me.

My upbringing in Rampur has contributed a lot to what I am today.

My mother had a Spanish upbringing. She was an excellent cook. Everything was home-made. We didn't eat food with smiley faces on it. My Mum passed away in 1994. I miss her. I miss her cooking. It would be nice to have a meal with her again.

I was born in a temple to a priest father, in a place like Benaras. So, my upbringing has been influenced by such surroundings.