Quotes About Tradition

Overall, there is very little in my life I enjoy more than college football.

The legacy thing is very overrated.

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

Bad cotton country meant good moonshining country.

I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here." [Audrey's insight]

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

Typing on an actual typewriter on paper is only a softer version of chiseling words into stone.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.

Raised from scratch on sandbanks, the city lacked deep roots. No wonder, to Roman eyes, that it had such a harlot character. Without custom there could be no shame, and without shame anything became possible. A people whose traditions had withered would become prey to the most repellent and degrading habits.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

Zijn ambtswoning lag om de hoek, in de Pelikaanstraat. Niet ver van onze diamantbeurs, die ondanks alle krijgsperikelen en gevluchte slijpers toch aan bedrijvigheid leek te herwinnen. Het steentje. Zo noemen wij, met onze kluchtige voorliefde voor verkleinwoorden, de industrie die onze stad al eeuwen onderstut en opstuwt. Zolang het steentje draait, draait de wereld rond. En zolang dat gebeurt, komt diezelfde wereld bij ons haar edelstenen kopen, klieven en verkopen.

People need foundation myths.

Chief Bo as the center, dressed, in 2005, in bright red feathers, with beadwork that should be in a museum and probably will be someday

Fenway is the essence of baseball

Zionism required its supporters to reconsider their Jewish identities and to position themselves between the values of Jewish tradition and a new Jewish nationalism.

Anyone who started a quarrel had to atone for it by buying a dish of coffee for everyone present.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

They weren't bad guys, just products of a society run by men and infused with rules to leave everyone sexually frustrated. Even in marriage sex in India is often just a brief, clumsy fumble in the dark, trying not to wake up grandma who's sleeping in the same bed.  

about sex or where babies come from, you marry someone you've never really talked to and then you live in a house so stuffed with family members that you never get to spend a moment with your spouse alone. Many children in India are conceived in bathrooms.   I

Let me let you in on a little secret," he writes. "If you are hearing about something old, it is almost certainly good. Why? Because nobody wants to talk about shitty old stuff, but lots of people still talk about shitty new stuff, because they are still trying to figure out if it is shitty or not. The past wasn't better, we just forgot about all the shitty shit.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

Be not the first by whom the new is tried nor the last to set the old aside.

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.