Quotes About Tradition

People call me old-fashioned. The younger guys on the force, they bust my chops because I don't speak their language. Harvey Bullock, dinosaur…because, nope, I didn't see that show last night, where they prance around and belt out awful covers and vote each other into the damn ocean or whatnot.

Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, erwirb es um es zu besitzen.

Die Nachtigall, sie war entfernt, Der Frühling lockt sie wieder; Was Neues hat sie nicht gelernt, Singt alte liebe Lieder.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

Wohl dem, der seiner Väter gern gedenkt, Der froh von ihren Taten, ihrer Größe, Den Hörer unterhält und still sich freuend Ans Ende dieser schönen Reihe sich Geschlossen sieht!

Overly informed, one creates under too much influence, too much anxiety. Without education, one risks mistaking originality for repetition, reinventing solutions to problems many times resolved in the past ["Tradition," Quarry West , #32].

No Bedouin wished to be outdone in showing kindness to a guest in his tent - or to be shamed by the charge of not being open-handed or magnanimous. p 55

The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

How do you do that?" I asked. "What do witches eat?" "Witches loves pork meat," she said. "They loves rice and potatoes. They loves black-eyed peas and cornbread. Lima beans, too, and collard greens and cabbage, all cooked in pork fat. Witches is old folks, most of them. They don't care none for low-cal. You pile that food on a paper plate, stick a plastic fork in it, and set it down by the side of a tree. And that feeds the witches." The

Here and in the European tradition generally, the convention of not painting the hair on a woman's body helps towards the same end. Hair is associated with sexual power, with passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly of such passion.)

Every tradition forbids the asking of certain questions about what has really happened to you.

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

Even in a godless world, rituals are required.

The familiar story, that, on seeing evildoers taken to the place of execution, he was wont to exclaim: "But for the grace of God there goes John Bradford," is a universal tradition, which has overcome the lapse of time.

There are two kinds of fools: one who says this is old and therefore good, and the other who says this is new and therefore better.

A luncheon guest at the Bank of France is generally told apologetically, "In the tradition of the bank, we serve only simple fare," but what follows is a repast during which the constant discussion of vintages makes any discussion of banking awkward, if not impossible, and at which the tradition of simplicity is honored, apparently, by the serving of only one wine before the cognac.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

Occasionally, we may even use something special, like the Gustav Holst Hymns from the Rig Veda.

The living tradition we share draws from many sources …

Laymen are not allowed to carry around the blessed Host to throw at people.