Quotes About Tradition

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

I like Brazilians and I like their values. They believe in family.

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.

In Italy, the concept of the family is very important.

I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.