Quotes about Tradition

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure.

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and you go out and stay out all night. That's just their tradition. They date under the covering of night. No one knows who they're dating or seeing until two weeks before they're going to be married. It's how they've done it for 300 years.

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

If you want to be Jewish, welcome, but convert via the Halacha.

I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.

Ours is a country with diversified culture and centuries-old tradition, which have to be preserved at any cost.

Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

My mom used to make delicious aloo ke parathe, and would give me two for school lunch.