Quotes About Tradition

There are no filmy parties for my daughter. I'm a bit old-fashioned in such cases because I don't want my child to lose her innocence at such an early age.

I am old-fashioned and like to be taken out for a movie and dinner.

My parents felt old-fashioned, growing up - they were quite disciplinarian. We went to church and had to learn music, but in hindsight it was a good thing.

I still believe in a lot of good old-fashioned values, and I do think anyone will ever change me in that respect.

As far as stand-up, a lot of Asians and Chinese are not as apt to stand-up, especially the older generation since they don't even know what stand-up is.

Older men in my family - back to my grandpa - were basically completely bald.

I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.

I grew up with all my cousins. The men worked, and the older women raised us - my mother, my aunt, my grandmother. My great-grandmother was the matriarch, and sometimes there were 30 of us.

Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

Crank-calling people is the oldest bit in the world.

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

Every continent on Earth has a form of bullroarer - it's the oldest instrument known to man.

Wrestling is one of the earliest and oldest martial arts there is.

My father is the oldest of seven boys.

Seriously, my grandma's like the oldest lady on ShipRocked every year. My grandma's crazy.

I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.

I'm half Italian, and on my mom's side, they've aged amazingly, and all they've put on their faces is olive oil.

I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'

It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

I go to church for the cultural element. It's where you go to see Greek people once a week. It's real important to me, and I hope my children see they're part of something bigger than just this family.

Whatever your parents do, you get conditioned to that. I remember my dad would put gramophone record, and would sit and read a book. And then once a week, we would go and watch a movie.

There's a reason they only serve fruitcake once a year, because it's awful. There's a reason they only serve mint julep's once a year, because they're awful. And there's a reason they only serve candy corn once a year, because it's awful.