Quotes About Tradition

The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.

I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.