Quotes About Tradition

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'

Nothing is stronger than habit.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.

No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows.

no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]

None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.

Jamie's mother was an incredible cook, he was an old-school man born in 1950, and he only really knew how to cook breakfast well.

My war is not as simple as yours was, Father. People seem to question their obligation to serve on other than their own terms. But enough of that. I fight because we have always fought. It doesn't matter who.