Quotes About Tradition

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.

My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.

Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits being named 'wall of cave', 'side of cave' and 'floor of cave

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.