How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #1
And when I went in to supper, the table was set with the kitchen knives and forks in place of the silver ones, and the sideboard (on which the silver service had been sitting when I began to remember and where it had been sitting ever since except on each Tuesday afternoon, when Granny and Louvinia and Philadelphy would polish it, why, nobody except Granny maybe knew, since it was never used) was bare. (1.2.3)
Does your family have any strange traditions, where no one knows how they got started? That's a little bit like the silver-polishing Tuesdays at the Sartoris household. Even if the silver doesn't need to be polished, Granny, Louvinia, and Philadelphy do so just to keep the tradition. It gives the family a sense of history.
Quote #2
Because he said that he would rather just maybe have tasted coconut cake without remembering it than to know for certain he had not; that if he were to describe the wrong kind of cake, he would never taste coconut cake as long as he lived. (1.3.4)
Ringo, as a slave boy, doesn't get the same privileges that Bayard does. That's why he isn't sure whether or not he's tasted coconut cake; Bayard can remember the taste perfectly because he's had more chances to try it. Ringo would prefer to have tasted and forgotten it than to have never tasted it at all, which means that even forgotten memories are more precious than never having had the experience in the first place.
Quote #3
So I took the snuff box from my pocket and emptied half the soil (it was more than Sartoris earth; it was Vicksburg too: the yelling was in it, the embattled, the iron-worn, the supremely invincible) into his hand. (2.2.39)
Have you ever moved away from your home? Did you take any souvenirs with you, or leave anything behind? Ringo and Bayard both feel strong connections to the land, and when they have to leave their home, they want to take some dirt along with them. And it isn't just dirt; it's filled with all the memories and spirit of the place because of what they associate it with.