Quotes About Tradition

I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition….

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition....

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

A classic, suggested Anthony, is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion…. After

that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition…. Then

On the contrary. When a man speaks he's merely tradition. He has at best a few thousand years back of him. But woman, why, she is the miraculous mouthpiece of posterity.

But for a girl I think she ought to have lots of minor accomplishments and pass them on to her children.

It was a tradition between them that they should never be too tired for anything, and they found it made the days better on the whole and put the evenings more in order.

Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.

I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

None of the Victorian mothers--and most of the mothers were Victorian--had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to be kissed.

My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations. The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we're descen

The band did a salute to Stephen Foster and played 'Beautiful Dreamer' and we formed a bed. Then we played 'My Old Kentucky Home' while the majorettes slowly pranced like horses. We finished with 'I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair', we formed a comb. Miss Philpot is running out of ideas if you ask me.

Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff.

the big dinner and gift opening to Christmas Eve so they could sleep late on

Because men learn only what would be of use to their great-grandparents. The right way to live is something we can teach only the dead.

Nací en un tiempo en el que la mayoría de los jóvenes habían perdido la creencia en Dios, por la misma razón por la que sus mayores la habían tenido —sin saber por qué—

Progresar es tanto innovar como conservar lo conseguido.

Nadie tiene derecho a condenar mi alma porque me gusten los toros

For reasons that may puzzle anthropologists long into the future, the prawn cocktail – a few (hopefully unfrozen) crustaceans placed in a glass on a bed of shredded lettuce, smothered in a pink Marie Rose sauce and sprinkled with paprika had become the quintessential English idea of fine dining.

This mentality is by no means exclusive to the Right. There is a long leftist tradition of seeing continental slavishness as a threat to English liberty, and of imagining England as the only green and pleasant land in which the new Jerusalem could be built.

There is nothing in this life so nice and so Gaelic as truly true Gaelic Gaels who speak in true Gaelic Gaelic about the truly Gaelic language.

I was at a wake the other night and every man jack was drunk - even the corpse.

I told you you could hang around and work for food, she said, if you don't mind sleeping in that car yonder. Why listen, Lady, he said with a grin of delight, the monks of old slept in their coffins! They wasn't as advanced as we are, the old woman said.