Generational Habits Quotes

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms

My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.

I registered Democrat because my parents did. They were, we were. There was no thinking behind it.

I think it's in my blood: both of my parents are very hard workers and were always working when I was growing up. I love working and what I do.

Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin.

Naturally, I do things my own way but I'm certainly influenced by my mother's way of doing things.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against reality. This brings to mind the story of the woman who always cut off the end of the turkey when she put it in the oven. Her daughter asked her why, and her mother responded, "I don't know. My mother always did it." Then she went and asked her mother, who said, "I don't know. My mother always did it." The she went and asked her grandmother, who said, "The oven wasn't big enough."

My father smoked cigars his whole life, and my husband once in a while does. And when he does, it reminds me of my father. It's a heartwarming thing.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.

There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap.

My generation is so used to having our public spaces look like the Starbucks, with the beautiful lighting and the little bit of Nina Simone and my coffee that's blended a certain way from Costa Rica.

My father is Polish, and at 68, he still wears a Speedo to the beach, and he wears regular briefs - so did his father. That was my upbringing.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.