Quotes About Tradition

in a world full of trends, i want to remain a classic

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

Ideographically the Chinese represent wife by a woman holding a broom—certainly not to brandish it offensively or defensively against her conjugal ally, neither for witchcraft, but for the more harmless uses for which the besom was first invented—the idea involved being thus not less homely than the etymological derivation of the English wife (weaver) and daughter (duhitar, milkmaid).

What Buddhism failed to give, Shintoism offered in abundance.

It is true that thrift was enjoined by Bushido, but not for economical reasons so much as for the exercise of abstinence

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18 ' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

No, no, don't touch your mother just before the baby is born. Now it will be a girl child, because you are one. Run along now. Take your evil eye with you." "Ghias, we must be careful not to teach the girls too much. How will they ever find husbands if they are too learned? The less they know, the less they will want of the outside world.

Given my swimmingly fetching cultural milieu, getting used to this bleeding business took quite a while. In the meantime, I fervently asked people why the hell this happened to us girls. Various sources consistently informed me that it was (big sigh) "just part of being a woman" (big sigh), or the good ol' standby curse we inherited from Eve.

HELENA. Well. Now we can finally eat. Everybody marches into the dining room singing the traditional song 'Helan Går'.

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

To a man who came from a military culture in which pilots were given swords instead of parachutes, and in which suicide was infinitely preferable to capture, it was incomprehensible that the Chinese would not fight an enemy to the death.

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.

Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat.

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners.

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Free schools were an invention of the Devil or the Yankees, which amounted to practically the same thing.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.