Quotes About Tradition

My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.

I use to weave crowns

New Year's Day: Eat lentils to bring riches.

Las niñas decentes se van a la cama a las seis de la tarde para llegar temprano a su casa".

One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.

I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.

Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?' In the old days she'd have been 'miss' and he'd have offered her a cocktail.

They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

Their lives were and are consumed with the generally dreadful business of being Russian.

Russian's claim the banya as their first doctor, vodka being the second and raw garlic the third.

The imagination is not somehow divorced from reason or the intellect: it's one of the primary ways we learn. I'm indebted to a literary colleague of mine for suggesting that in classical tradition, the imagination is considered "the mind's eye" (emphasis on mind), an actual faculty of the intellect.

Story is the primary way we impart what really matters to the next generation.

Youth are natural-born storytellers. Our task in discipleship training is to steer them into a particular storytelling tradition—that is, the narrative, language, and culture of the Christian faith as it has been lived and expressed for two thousand years.

we must become bards: poets charged with the task of keeping and imparting the stories, language, values, and beliefs of a culture.

Writes Native American storyteller Ray Buckley: A child relates storytelling . . . to human contact, and that contact becomes as much a part of the story as the story itself. As adults, we experience storytelling in much the same fashion. Isn't it interesting that in many cultures, storytelling is viewed as a form of touch?7

Both moderns and postmoderns must be willing to try old things in new ways and new things in old ways.

If we want the next generation to know where they came from and thus who they are, we tell them stories so they won't forget. Then they pass the stories on to the generation after them, and so it goes.

Writes Webber: This conflict of style has continued in the twentieth-century debate about traditional versus contemporary worship. Traditional worship seems to be hanging on to modernity while contemporary worship has capitulated to pop culture. In either case the debate continues to rage about style with little concern for a biblical theology of worship. 8

None of them were recent, but that was the nature of family stories. They had to be far enough in the past that they took on a mythic quality.

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.