Quotes About Tradition

At weddings old people poke me and say, "you're next, " so I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

What do you think of Christmas?""I like it, " she said. "I think we should have it every year.

The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.

Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2, 000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.

You might be a redneck if your momma tore her best dress coon hunting.

There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

Hunting is the last perfect thing.

America is the only place where people go hunting on a full stomach.

You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather.

Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations.

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday I got a .22. He got a hunting knife I got a hunting knife.

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.

Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.