Quotes About Tradition

Bullfighters are Seville's heroes.

For me, saying 'I love you' is the same as unbuttoning the heroine's kurti.

I watched 'Hey Hey' religiously every Saturday night like every other single human that I knew.

Today, youths say 'Hi and Bye' even to their parents. Instead, they should touch parents' feet as a mark of respect.

I can't hide where I grew up or the flavors I grew up on.

When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.

I've been No. 12 my entire career. My cousin Nikki Haerling was a good basketball player, she wore No. 12 in high school and college, and my dad, he was No. 12 as well. I actually just started wearing it when I got to high school my freshman year.

English culture is highly literary-based.

Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.

Country hillbilly music I love. Always have.

There are those who in their very first seeking of it are nearer to the Kingdom of Heaven than many who have for years believed themselves of it. In the former there is more of the mind of Jesus, and when He calls them they recognize Him at once and go after Him; while the others examine Him from head to foot, and finding Him not sufficiently like the Jesus of their conception, turn their backs and go to church or chapel or chamber to kneel before a vague form mingled of tradition and fancy.

Aye, weel, here's tae us.' 'Wha's like us?' said McGilvray. 'Dam' few,' said Forbes. 'And they're a' deid,' I said, completing the ritual. 'Aw-haw-hey,' said Daft Bob and we drank.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

The tendency of mechanical progress is to make your environment safe and soft; and yet you are striving to keep yourself brave and hard...So in the last analysis the champion of progress is also the champion of anachronisms.

It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays; for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.

Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.' One

For the hair has grown on my upper lip And the clergy are all clean-shaven

Queer, the affection you can feel for a stranger! It was as though his spirit and mine had momentarily succeeded in bridging the gulf of language and tradition and meeting in utter intimacy. I hoped he liked me as well as I liked him. But I also knew that to retain my first impression of him I must not see him again; and needless to say I never did see him again.

A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better. The debased language that I have been discussing is in some ways very convenient. Phrases like a not unjustifiable assumption, leaves much to be desired, would serve no good purpose, a consideration which we should do well to bear in mind, are a continuous temptation, a packet of aspirins always at one's elbow.