Quotes About Tradition

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment.

My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

When I was 10 years old, we'd pick out a cow and boom! They'd hit it in the head with a hammer, lift it up by the back legs, and skin it in front of us. Then I'd take the head home and make soup

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

Home is where we have a history.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.

As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day.

We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family.