Quotes About Tradition

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

Children deserve to be reared in a home with a father and a mother.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.