Roy Sesana Quotes

We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people. We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as "identities" that can be accepted as part of larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation.

The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.

The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

My children don't look Hispanic.

Traditional values are big in my life.

Change is no threat to culture.

I love my heritage!

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.