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Quotes about Tradition

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
— GK Chesterton
My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.
— Bo Sanchez
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.
— Barack Obama
Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
— Maya Angelou
My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
— Billy Sunday
I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.
— Arianna Huffington
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
— Jay-Z
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
— Gracie Gold
Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
— Alice Walker
The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.
— Nelson Mandela