Quotes About Tradition

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.

My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

Happy Father's Day -- or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day.

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

My father was a bullfighter.