“Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.” MotherValuesGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsBirthJokesTraditionalTraditional Values Author:Janet McTeer
“Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.” WorldPastCultureTreeBirthEternityTraditionalLinksAncestorChildbirthExtendingPast PresentPast Present And FutureIntersectionsTree Of Life Author:Sheila Kitzinger
“Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.” MenFeelsKindFactsStoriesFormBirthProfoundAncientTalesTraditionalMortalsAppealsLife And DeathIrresistiblePrimalResistingShuffling Author:Kenneth Branagh
“Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started to listen to music on my own it was around the time of the birth of rock and roll. Shortly thereafter I started to get into more blues and more traditional rootsy American music.” KidsCoursesParentMy OwnRocksBirthJazzTraditionalRock And RollListening To MusicAmerican Music Author:Jorma Kaukonen
“We are on the verge of losing the traditional idea of the family, especially in Japan, where the declining birth rate shows no signs of stopping. This is precisely why I think we should consider with a sense of urgency what the new image of "family" should be like, and not fall into the nostalgism that days gone by were just better.” ThinkingShouldIdeasShowsFallGoneBirthLosingRateTraditionalJapanStoppingUrgencyVergeSense Of UrgencyBirth RateDays Gone By Author:Mamoru Hosoda