Quotes About Tradition

Le pays latins, comme les pays d'Orient, oppriment la femme par le rigueur des moeurs encore plus que par celle des lois.

we can say the beauty of the world is nearly absent in the Christian tradition. This is a terrible omission. How can Christianity claim the right to call itself catholic if the universe itself is absent within it?

Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanction, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider.

It was a downy town, a drowsy town, a town of security and tradition, which still believed in Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Memorial Day, and to which May Day was not an occasion for labor parades but for distributing small baskets of flowers.

An American thinks of a good cook as a low person; a European respects him as an artist.

the youngsters in canoes were now singing My Old Kentucky Home. Zenith was still in the halcyon William Dean Howells days; not yet had it become the duty of young people to be hard and brisk, and knowing about radios, jazz, and gin.

A nation that forgets its past has no future

We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease.

women about who were either pregnant or pushing wicker perambulators.

I now know exactly why they started the tradition of being apart the night before your wedding. It's nothing about romance, or sex, or being chaste, or whatever. It's so you don't have a row and stomp up the aisle seething at your bridegroom, planning all the home truths you're going to tell him as soon as you get this wedding bit out of the way.

The English are incapable of good grooming, unless it's a horse. - Elinor Sherman

I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi.

Does it matter if we're a bit old-fashioned?

for I owe a longer allegiance to the dead than to the living:

OEDIPUS: If all such violence goes with honor now Why join the sacred dance.

When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.

In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.

In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

Superstitions add texture to life.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.