Quotes About Tradition

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

What's really good is African drum music.

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.

I'm very happy when I can find somewhere with some very good matzo ball soup, tasting exactly the same as the one my mother used to do for me.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."

You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.

But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them.

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.