Quotes About Tradition

I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

What task could be more agreeable than to tell of the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors, so that you may get to know the achievements of those from whom you have received both the basis of your beliefs, and the inspiration to conduct your life properly?

En realidad, muy de acuerdo con nuestra tradición mental, en la cual las palabras no sirven para nombrar las cosas sino para disfrazarlas, liberal y conservador no eran palabras que denotaran una filosofía, sino etiquetas que diferenciaban a los mismos protagonistas en distintos momentos de la rebatiña.

Hermanados por la tradición y por la lengua, tal vez no esté muy lejos el día en que se cumpla el todavía improbable sueño de una unidad de naciones de nuestra América

La ciencia declaró ilegítimo e insubsistente todo el saber que la tradición nos había legado sobre nuestro cuerpo, la confinó al territorio de la superstición, y se erigió en la única propietaria de un saber válido sobre la salid y la enfermedad, sobre la vida y la muerte.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better.

When the Orthodox tradition of biblical knowledge is taken as a whole, which is not easily attainable, taking years and multiple teachers, it can clearly be seen that the Torah was composed by influence of divine origin, a position that stands in opposition to the common scholarly opinion that it is the garbled mess of a multitude of redactors.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,And make death proud to take us.

But to my mind,—though I am native hereAnd to the manner born—it is a customMore honor'd in the breach than the observance.

Old fashions please me best.

O Kate! nice customs curtsy to great kings.

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase...

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

What made the show work, in addition to the relationships between the members of the crew, were the stories we told each week. Star Trek wasa tribute to the great tradition of science fiction, in which future civilizations were used to tell contemporary morality tales, tales about subjects that couldn't be addressed for various reasons at the time.

both of us were raised in lower-middle-class Orthodox Jewish immigrant families

Conservatism, it was called; and certainly it did conserve the devil admirably.

In America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.

America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.

Pharisees—men who lived in the strength of a fellowship that had behind it the greatest religious tradition in all the world, but who, because they trusted more to their tradition than to the God who inspired it, were unable to recognise the still further call of God when it came to them.

The Bluesis the roots of all American music.