Quotes About Tradition

The boy would learn to ride, to fight, and to hawk, the three chief physical elements of noble life,

The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.

When a pope's election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost.

England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last.

In 1914 "glory" was a word spoken without embarrassment, and honor a familiar concept that people believed in.

No Pope ever issued a Bull to approve of something.

They governed from duty, heritage and habit—and, as they saw it, from right.

As guardians of a continuity of religious and racial tradition" the Zionists were, Balfour decided, "a great conservative force in world politics." Immediately

Planted firmly across the path of change, operating warily, shrewdly yet with passionate conviction in defence of the existing order, was a peer who was Chancellor of Oxford University for life, had twice held the India Office, twice the Foreign Office and was now Prime Minister for the third time. He was Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, ninth Earl and third Marquess of his line.

The fact-finding mission was now the traditional Washington substitute for policy.

Europe slipped back into savagery and paganism.

The idea so prevalent that man without woman, or woman without man, is an imperfect being, was the cause of the great repugnance with which the Jews and other nations of the East regarded celibacy.

In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality was but one element of an affectional and educational relationship in which youths learned the ways of manhood

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

And he said, "It is not that Eleazar knows more Torah than I do but that he is descended from greater men than I am. Happy is the person whose ancestors have gained merit for him. Happy is the person who has a 'peg' on which to hang.

There are all kinds of myths going on in the Italian culture, and the way they celebrate is through their food. It's the tradition of the table where the Italians celebrate most of their triumphs and successes.

When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage. We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

My mom made something that I always requested for my birthday called mock chicken legs. She would take ground veal and ground pork and mix it up with a bunch of spices, and then take a Popsicle stick and put it inside a little ball of the meat. Then you bake them. It was like a veal-and-pork hamburger rolled in ground-up Rice Krispies. It was delightful.

Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.

Japanese culture? I kind of love everything about it. I love the food. Everyone's really nice. There's just a lot about Japan that's really cool.

Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.

My grandma was very traditional, but she herself is a rebel of that culture.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.