Quotes About Tradition

Even though I did things which were not in accordance with the society's norms, deep down, I am an orthodox woman.

I hail from an orthodox family, but they encouraged me to learn various dance forms.

When I was growing up in the house, we'd watch the Oscars.

English football is really different to football in other countries.

For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.

I'm obsessed with Chinese food and culture. It's food that I adore above all others.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

Some of the most green people in our lives are our parents and grandparents, who always bought locally and carefully. I remember my grandmother would buy a jar of cream and make it last for a long time. To me, that is just as green as something with an expensive, eco-savvy label on it.

We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach them where it all comes from.

Our music has gotten polluted today. We are straying far from our culture. Other people are trying to grab our culture, but we are very far from our culture.

I think that for a lot of us gay people, we do feel that pop is our music. We identify with it and its iconography, and that's been a tradition.

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.

It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.

In our world marriage was the best option for any woman. No girl ever chose to have a career unless she couldn't get a man. It was very much a tertiary life.

My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

Harris Tweed as been around since before the Industrial Revolution when it was a handmade cloth from the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.

We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'

Don't go outside the box when you're still not very good inside the box.

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.

As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.

I'm a Latina. Everything is outspoken in my culture.

Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.

The ultimate gathering when I was younger would be an over-the-top Christmas party. Now, ugh, it's so sad... as I'm getting older, I kind of look forward to more intimate, really nice dinners.