Quotes About Tradition

Nothing in life is ritual.

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

Life should be all about change. But some things shouldn't change. And my three-piece suits are one of those things.

I've been around responsible gun ownership my whole life.

I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

My life was very Japanese.

I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

The Lost Cause tradition—as both a version of history and as a racial ideology—is still certainly very much alive in neo-Confederate organizations, on numerous Web sites, among white supremacist groups, in staunch advocates of the Confederate battle flag, and even among some mainstream American politicians.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

It should puzzle us more than it does that one of the greatest foci of human ingenuity and concentrated effort over the past millennia has been the problem of how to get drunk.

Innovations are always necessarily gradual and incremental, building on the accumulated insights of past humans. We are the cultural animal par excellence, and our ability to share the products of our individual creativity and pass them on to future generations is the key to our ecological dominance.30

It was never quite clear to Eleanor why the English thought it was so distinguished to have done nothing for a long time in the same place

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

the extent we function and grow within the context of our own souls (a lifetime project) and abet the emergence of our own selves (by a willingness to face life's challenges and oneself), our spirituality and our tradition will spring naturally from our being.

Each one is an invalid or valid sign of its parents, who compromised that and signed for such work of love, whether wrong or right in a legal and religious context.