Quotes About Tradition

In the quiet of the kitchen my mind wanders. Fried chicken and potato salad. What's this man trying to re-create? A picnic? An outing? A meal his grandma made? A chess pie is old school. It's basically a pecan pie without the pecans. Syrupy sweet. I think about the memories he must have about this meal. Innocent. Pure. Happy.

Harlan, Cody, and I stand there and gaze at it all. The glistening fried chicken, the potato salad, and fried okra. The biscuits still steaming in the oven. A ramekin of honey butter and another of ranch dressing set off the meal. The chess pie and the Blue Bell ice cream are just begging to be devoured.

The days of recording family births, deaths and marriages in the family Bible were far distant.

Portuguese cake-making

this Londonised a Caribbean tradition of story telling and use of language that had previously been the preserve of reggae. While that was to prove pivotal in the evolution of jungle, more immediately it was an important step for young black London in general.

In my opinion, kissing a lady's hand is a fine tradition. After all, a man must start somewhere.

The old customs are dead, and we keep trying on new ones, like badly fitting clothes.

Like cornbread, barbecue is a food that unifies the vast expanse of the American South, an ever larger portion of the American mainstream.

Thus, within Linnaean terminology, a female characteristic (the lactating mamma) ties humans to brutes, while a traditionally male characteristic (reason) marks our separateness.

The bride, the white bride today a maiden, tomorrow a wife.

Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience -- a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.

Jeffs Bagel Run bagels taste like the definition of what a bagel meant to me growing up."

En realidad, ningún domingo puede terminar bien, como todo el mundo sabe.

Get off," she said. "Get off now." Before its too late, and I decide to celebrate a narrow escape from death in the traditional manner of our species.

Perhaps he will say, 'That was an excellent idea the ancient Greeks had, of abandoning female infants on a mountainside. Why was that practice given up, I wonder?

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family. Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love.

Roast the chestnuts, heat the wine, Pass the cups along the line, Gather round, the log burns bright, It's warm as toast inside tonight

in certain regions of Italy, women of ill-repute or evil looks are forbidden to enter cheese factories.

Sophocles' plays, performed in amphitheaters, were the equivalent of today's megachurches, where customs and values were clarified and conveyed.