Quotes About Tradition

Jesus was born a Jew, and he died a Jew. It never occurred to him to establish a new religion. He never crossed himself: he had no reason to. He never set one foot in a church. He went to synagogue.

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

I'm Reconstructionist; I don't serve the Sabbath, but I go to synagogue.

Passover takes place in the home rather than the synagogue and centers around an epic meal - the seder - so you remember Passover as storytelling, you remember it in food, and you remember it in the family.

I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious.

I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach Jews; we were Jewish-joke Jews. We were bagel Jews. We didn't go to synagogue. I'm frightened of synagogue to this day.

I like teams which repeat their style, clubs that are synonymous with one style.

For sure yeah, Bullet Club is definitely synonymous with pro wrestling as a whole.

My name is synonymous with corsets and ringlets.

I like everything about women except marrying one. But Grandmother is adamant. Either I marry or I'll be disinherited.

Tepary beans, before the advent of the playing card and the poker chip, figured as counters in an ancient Indian gambling game.

vegetable eating traditionally has been considered far better for the good of the soul.

Common sense is just a name for the way we're used to thinking.

This is a cardinal Ya-Ya rule: you must meet each person's eyes while clinking glasses in a toast. Otherwise, the ritual has no meaning, it's just pure show. And that is something the Ya-Yas are not.

Culture can be invisible to its natives.

we always went back to my grandma's pockets, because she carried in them everything you would need to get through the day or start life in a new state. You wanted hard candy, loose change, a little pencil, a bobby pin, a safety pin, a pre-threaded needle, an aspirin, Band-Aids, stamps or rubber bands? She had them on her person at all times. Those pockets carried what are now carried at bodegas.

History is a struggle between the "old" right that intended to be just and the "new" that promises to be.

Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side.

I was thus led to infer that the ground of our opinions is far more custom and example than any certain knowledge.

When the father is no longer an overbearing patriarch the son looks everywhere for the law - and finds no lawgiver.

It is a mistake to suppose that he rejected poetry for aesthetic reasons. What is overlooked in all of this is that Plato came between an older tradition of philosophy and Christianity. He saw the danger of violence much more clearly because of his proximity to the pre-Socratics. The understanding of the danger is essential, vital in Plato.

The preference that cultures grant to themselves, in other words, must be perpetuated at any cost. This preference is inseparably bound up with the identity, the autonomy, the very existence of these cultures.

Human culture is fundamentally and originally religious, rather than secondarily and supplementally.