Quotes About Tradition

I love making apple strudel.

When I was 18, I applied to go to BYU like my six brothers ahead of me - I have eight boys and one girl in my family.

I grew up speaking Arabic at home.

I actually feel like a very traditional architect.

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!

I got married at 24. It was an arranged marriage.

I don't mind an arranged marriage. The girl my parents choose could be the girl of my dreams.

My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.

I play the way I do because it's the Arsenal way.

Arsenal will always remain a large club.

Wenger built this club and it is hard to imagine Arsenal without him.

The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.

My dad is white, he's an art history teacher, he's very traditional.

You know there is something a little bit special about an Ashes.

Quand son fils devint grand, il le mena chasser pour qu'il contractât cette sauvagerie de langage, cette rudesse de manières, cette force de corps, cette virilité dans le regard et dans la voix qui rendaient à ses yeux un homme accompli." Cité par Lucile Peytavin dans Le coût de la virilité

Man sieht, daß sich in allen Schichten der Gesellschaft die Bräuche gleichen und nur in der Art, dem Äußerlichen und der Nuance verschieden sind. Auch die große Gesellschaft hat ihr Rotwelsch; aber dieses Rotwelsch heißt ›der Stil‹.

The marriages in these families are arranged in the cradle, so rigidly are the greatest things settled as well as the smallest. No stranger, no intruder, ever finds his way into one of these houses, and to obtain an introduction for the colonels or officers of title belonging to the first families in France when quartered there,

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

The elder, Mademoiselle Virginie, was the very image of her mother. Madame Guillaume, daughter of the Sieur Chevrel, sat so upright in the stool behind her desk, that more than once she had heard some wag bet that she was a stuffed figure.

What do we know of the world, of business, or men, or life? Our fathers should think for us!

Come day, go day, as the old folks say,

Christian missionaries who intruded at odd times to advocate baptism and the romantic practice of the man on top instead of on the bottom or from behind. They insisted that anyone civilized knew the latter two were unholy and, moreover, encouraged the rheumatism.