Quotes About Tradition

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

I didn't have a very religious family.

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.

Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another.

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.