Quotes About Tradition

I have never celebrated Valentine's Day in my life.

Every Valentine's Day growing up, my dad would give me a strawberry cream-filled chocolate heart from Russell Stover.

When I was young, we didn't celebrate February 14. For us, Valentine's Day meant Saraswati Puja. And just a single day in a year can't be Valentine's Day.

Supporting Rangers, being in an Orange Lodge, that whole life - that's a valid culture.

I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didn't want to be either one.

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

My mother is cursed with making the best biryani in town. I know everyone says that about their mothers cooking, but this is different. When theres anything going down in Californias San Fernando Valley, she gets a call.

Everything is in flamenco. Spirituality, loyalty, humility, valor.

Established in 2001, the Medal of Valor is our nation's highest public safety award. Officers across the nation are nominated by their peers, but only a handful are selected to receive this honor. Traditionally, this process occurs only once a year.

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.

I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.

In India, knowledge has always been considered more valuable than power, fame or riches. In our tradition, educational institutions are respected as temples of learning.

Horses are the brand value of 'Wertheimer Freres.'

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America is young and doesn't have that.

My parents used to play cards on Saturday... all the friends would come across. So it was like one massive Parsee gathering... and the value system kind of creeps in.

My grandmother valued her Southern roots, folk culture, and healing.

I was supposed to go to Northwestern and become a dental hygienist, get married, have babies. My father was very against me being in show business. Usually in Chinese culture, education is the most highly valued.

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

I am not religious in any way, but I have a pagan ideology and pagan values.