Quotes About Tradition

It is the Russians' joy to drink; we cannot do without it.

May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah.

Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it.

I [Paul] am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee.

Homecoming means more than kings and queens.

Let them learn first to show piety at home.

Cinco de Mayo makes me long for a world in which all holidays are conveniently named after the dates on which they fall.

Wisdom is not bought.

O waly, waly, up the bank,And waly, waly, doun the brae,And waly, waly, yon burnside,Where I and my Love wont to gae!

Polly, put the kettle on,We'll all have tea.

Curlylocks, Curlylocks,Wilt thou be mine?Thou shalt not wash dishesNor yet feed the swine,But sit on a cushionAnd sew a fine seam,And feed upon strawberries,Sugar and cream.

An egg is dear on Easter Day.

a hatch, match and dispatch Anglican,

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

There is a profound middle-class nostalgia for the days of British protection....

Christianity is distinguished by the remarkable characteristic that it is the only world religion which begins by discarding its own founders's creed.

una actitud muy parecida al nishkama karma de la tradición india, o lo que él llama la mística de las acciones no lucrativas

It's not so much the contents of the song. It's that the song was still being sung.

Warner laces his boots and sings the songs and marches the marches, acting less out of duty than out of a time worn desire to be dutiful.

For 2,600 years, the man continues, those of us in the Western tradition have been assured that the role of humanity is to subdue the earth. That all creation was created for us to harvest. And for 2,600 years we pretty much got away with it. Temperatures remained constant, seasons stayed predictable, and we cut down forests and fished out oceans and elevated one god above all others: Growth.

archaeologists have found the inscription ?????????? scratched on thousands of ancient Greek pots, given as gifts by older men to boys they found attractive. ??????????, ????? ? ????, "the boy is beautiful.

So we teach them how to sit still, how to obey bells, how to make insipid clichés pass for thought, how to be "subversive" in trivial and uniform ways, how to think "outside the box" of tradition and wisdom and into the stainless steel cage of the politically "correct," how to extend the political pinky while sipping the political tea.

On three great bonds of love do all cultures depend: the love between man and woman in marriage; the love between a mother and her child; and the camaraderie among men, a bond that used to be strong enough to move mountains. The first two have suffered greatly; the third has almost ceased to exist.

The only reason why mankind has celebrated marriages is that they renew the race; they bring forth new life, within the bounds of a holy vow.