Quotes About Tradition

Food is all about the story of a people through the ages.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

I come from a long line of storytellers.

I come from a family of storytellers.

I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

I think that, in my research anyway, country music seems to be grounded in people staying true to their roots, being homegrown and being honest storytellers.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.

I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others' stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large.

I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

DC is the foundation of what we all know about comic books and heroes. They've had great storytellers, great illustrates, as a part of that tradition.

I'm a storyteller. My whole family is storytellers. I'm just a product of my environment.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

I come from a big family where we tell big stories. All we had was the storytelling.

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.