Quotes About Tradition

The Dolly's around here can't be seen to coddle a snitch's family --- that's the always been our way. We're old blood, us people, and our ways was set firm long before hot shot baby Jesus ever even burped milk'n sh*& yellow.

Cowboying is all I've done my whole life.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

My family values are really, really important.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

No family is complete without an embarrassing uncle.

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

A "daddys little girl" is the one who would rather get her hands covered in engine oil with dad, than stay in the house and bake buns with her mother!

To get exponential returns, forget learning the latest thing. Instead, focus on what lasts.

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai – Samurai story – in Japan.

My family is Jamaican and Cuban, but we would go to see our Jamaican side every summer for three months and every Christmas. One of the things I used to love was climbing trees and picking ackee fruit for breakfast.

My wife and I have the secret to making a marriage last. Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, a little wine, good food. She goes on tuesdays, I go Fridays.

The only mistake for which people are congratulated is marriage.

Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.

I have always loved things that are timeless and get better with age.

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.