Quotes About Tradition

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect.

Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.

Chelsea has always been a foodie heaven and it will never change in that respect.

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

I have great respect for the past.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.

Aye, wumman, if it's truly romantic, then it must be Scottish.

It's hard not to be romantic about baseball

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.

There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

But Urashima had remembered his old parents, and in Japan the duty to parents is stronger than everything else, stronger even than pleasure or love, and he would not be persuaded, but answered:

When a people does not honour its past, it lives in a present of little substance and faces a future clouded in doubt.

Our masters say that real arts never die. Real arts are about remembrance.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

the purpose of the biblical editors, in gathering together such diverse and often sharply conflicting texts, was not to construct a unitary work with an unequivocal message. It was rather to assemble a work capable of capturing and reflecting a given tradition of inquiry so readers could strive to understand the various perspectives embraced by this tradition, and in so doing build up an understanding of their own.