Quotes About Tradition

To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.

Myth is someone else's religion.

Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.