Quotes About Tradition

Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

They make money the old-fashioned way. They inherit it.

I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people.

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

We only open a couple of presents on Christmas morning we're all about the stockings - we even get them for the dogs!

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.