Quotes About Tradition

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

Don't ask for a girl's hand in marriage and forget to ask for her leg too.

If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle.

I want to know why if men rule the world they don't stop wearing neckties.

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

Well, guess what, I'm Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes.

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

In years past, to keep their men close, women would wear a ring and bear children. It doesn't work like that today. Nowadays, how do we hold on to those we love? I've no idea.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.