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Quotes About Tradition

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We do Greco-Roman, freestyle. The Old Country way. No gimmick wrestling in my house.
~ The Iron Sheik
My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.
~ Joel Grey
More kids should churn butter. That's how it was in the old days.
~ Brad Leone
Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.
~ Arabella Weir
Dancing along with family members and old friends, especially during a marriage, is a memorable experience.
~ The Great Khali
I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.
~ Laura Esquivel
My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.
~ Jamie Wyeth
Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
~ Taj Mahal
As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.
~ Alexandra Petri
Old people have a much better time in India because they're respected.
~ Miriam Margolyes
There's a convention in English stuff that if something is more than 100 years old, people have to say 'do not' instead of 'don't. They have to say 'will not' instead of 'won't.' People are speaking in a way that is not accessible or normal. And people didn't ever speak like that.
~ Steven Knight
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.
~ LL Cool J
I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
~ Zoe Lister-Jones
There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
~ Lenny Kravitz
People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.
~ Sylvester Stallone
I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.
~ Mike Epps
When I think of Bollywood dance, I think of choreographies from the '70s and '80s. That was true Bollywood, what is now known as old school Bollywood.
~ Terence Lewis
My idea of romance is pretty old school.
~ Shruti Haasan
Growing up, watching the New Jersey Devils, I watched players like Ken Daneyko, Scott Stevens, Scott Niedermayer, old school players who respected the game.
~ P.K. Subban
The old school in me knows how to get over and get other guys over. I'm going to continue to do it.
~ Randy Orton
I'm an old school cat. I'm a fan of Richard Pryor and also Redd Foxx.
~ Rikishi
I'm a bit old school with my aftershave - I still wear Joop.
~ Andrew Flintoff
I love entertaining old school. It's how I feel the most comfortable, because it's what I experienced growing up.
~ Tinsley Mortimer