Quotes About Tradition

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Those who still believe the Brahmins should take a serious note of the changing times and start leading an awakened life.

In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

It's important to honor your ancestors. Bringing in a piece of furniture or an object you've inherited from a loved one not only honors the person who has passed but also brings the warmth of happy memories into your home.

Sin embargo, la iglesia primitiva tenía un enfoque mucho más simple, centrándose en la predicación de la Palabra, comunión y la oración (Hechos 2:42). Sin importar cuán poco atractivo eso pueda sonar a los oídos modernos, esto es lo que la iglesia primitiva buscó hacer.

En lugar de tratar de añadir al culto nuevas formas de adoración, es necesario dejar que la iglesia busque hacer aquello que ha sido prescrito y hacerlo bien.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see," which I interpret to mean that looking way back into the past provides much better perspective into the enduring patterns of history. I'd

Paradigm challenges are never suffered lightly by the orthodox establishment in any field.

I approach Jung as if he were an alchemist, the latest in a long tradition of spiritual teachers.

What many of us embraced as solid and certain seems condescending and exclusive to them. Values that felt trustworthy to some of us—authority, tradition, reason, logic, absolute truth—read like easily dismantled propaganda to postmoderns. Authority—parents, church leaders, government—has failed the next generation in profound ways.

Atlanta, Georgia—a city where little girls in $50 smocked dresses romp around on filthy playgrounds. Where every freshly birthed Southern baby gets two names and women wear pastel pantsuits to lunch. These ladies instinctively understand closed-toed shoes and slips and no-white-after-Labor-Day-unless-it-is-winter-white.

Italy was the only place I'd visited where people described kitchen implements as having souls of their own.

but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure.

Kinder, Kirche, Küche: children, church, kitchen; this is what all German girls hope for;

Kinder, Kirche, Küche: children, church, kitchen; this

May the road rise to meet you May the wind be always at your back May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home And may the hand of a friend always be near. May green be the grass you walk on, May blue be the skies above you, May pure be the joys that surround you, May true be the hearts that love you. —Traditional Irish Blessing

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.