Quotes About Tradition

the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.

The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never got a dinner!

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.