Quotes About Tradition

I look at my elders as the leaders.

We need our HBCUs. The youth need our HBCUs. The elders need our HBCUs.

The elegance of a sari or the flirtiness of a lehenga is matchless.

I think there's a spiritual element to dancing in general. There's a reason why in every culture, dancing seems to be in our DNA.

I listen to many forms of music. And I come from a very particular style and tradition of music, which has certain elements that are absolutely unique and, therefore, important to the world.

A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.

I always find it a bit embarrassing when people sing 'Auld Lang Syne.' Nobody knows when it finishes, so it goes on and on.

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?

I haven't traditionally been a family entertainer.

Christmas is all about festivity, family, being together, reading stories and entertaining one another.

No one in my family is an entrepreneur.

People have told me to change it over the years, but my dad is always saying, 'Never change your name!' My middle name is O'Hara, so it's a pretty epic name. Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski.

8H has such an epic, storied history. You can feel that when you're in there.

In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

I feel electronica is spoiling the essence of music.

When you just come into a show that's already established, you feel that they're family, and they have a way of doing things and running things.

What makes you the establishment is if you buy into it.

I'm an Indian and I shall not do anything that goes against my ethos.

We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.

And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.

Part of the tradition of the Christmas season is every night my son and I hit the town and look for every Christmas light we can find. This is something my son absolutely adores.

Recognoverunt proceres (p. 45)