Quotes About Tradition

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be an easier way to kill worms. Never got a dinner!

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.

Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.