Quotes About Tradition

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.

'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

In the old days, we painstakingly copied our emails onto paper, put a stamp on them and mailed them to arrive 4 to 5 days later. We also churned our own butter and used our phones for talking.

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.

We're having a traditional Thanksgiving - turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.

Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'

What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.

Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm thankful for all of you. I am not thankful for the pilgrims. Buckles should never be on hats.

Here's a Thanksgiving tip. Generally, your turkey is not cooked enough if it passes you the cranberry sauce.

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.