Quotes About Tradition

History develops, art stands still.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices

Oh, superstition is terrible, terrible! oh, it is the great defect in our Indian character!

For townsmen and countrymen alike, the rhythms of the liturgy on the eve of the Reformation remained the rhythms of life itself.

You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.

You can say this for ready-mixes — the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.

To paraphrase a Latino saying (which is possibly ultimately from the Arabic traditiom), MI rasa is supposed raza." So Living in Spanglish is not a racial Istanbul text.

The institutionalizing of the church is essentially its immunization to an evangelistic impulse.

when we have every right (after all it's "our church"), when we have always done it that way (no reason to change if we like it), and when we are in prominent positions (we have earned it), we can easily make it about us.

You can preach heresy at a lot of churches, and people will not object. Leaders can lead double lives, and people will let it be. But, change the order of service, and it's time for a fight.

But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when there was foolish counsel available from his male friends.

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

Gran, I love you," Sarah said, "but your blind adherence to the dominant culture's values makes me want to scream.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!

There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

There is something about saying, 'We always do this,' which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep on meaning to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar food. Tradition is a good gift intended to guard the best gifts.

It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes," except the behavior of those who gave rise to them.

On the green they watched their sons Playing till too dark to see, As their fathers watched them once, As my father once watched me

The wisdom of our ancestors.

He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.