Quotes About Tradition

It had also affected the old fishermen's hard complexions, until one fancied that when Death claimed them it could only be with the aid, not of any slender modern dart, but the good serviceable harpoon of a seventeenth century woodcut.

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

The terraced slopes were a marvel of human muscle, a compelling demonstration of what China's giant workforce could accomplish over generations. Even so, many from their region had left farming for trade.

Paying for your lover's funeral is the gay version of a bar mitzvah. It is how you know that you have become a man.

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

The tradition was that with each kiss a berry was picked off the mistletoe. Once the last berry was gone, then there could be no more kissing," Chris revealed as he leaned closer before whispering, "And that's a total shame.

See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

Doing nothing is respectable at tea.

Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?

PART OF THE GENIUS of genuine Christianity is that each generation has to think it through afresh.

Culture socializes us into what is considered proper behavior. For Christians, this is true in our churches as well as in society at large.

The question we need to ask today is this, and this question strikes to the heart of how we read the Bible: Do we seek to retrieve that cultural world and those cultural expressions, or do we live the same gospel in a different way in a different day?

For some it is tempting to use only set prayers, while for others it is almost a solemn requirement to use only spontaneous prayers. We need both,

In the Roman Empire a child's religion was determined not by some choice in the teenage years but by that child's family.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

correspondent in the Middle East, attaché William Yale. With that dispatch he was establishing a tradition of fundamentally misreading the situation in the Middle East that his successors in the American intelligence community would rigorously maintain for the next ninety-five years.

If you want longevity, you can't just bet on tradition; you have to continually invest in the future.

There is nothing wrong with tradition until you want progress: progress demands change, and change demands a reevaluation of what the traditions are for and how they are practiced.

Technology does have an impact on behavior, but culture comes first.

Laughter leads to running jokes, and running jokes lead to a shared history, and a shared history is culture.

The most dangerous tradition we hold about work is that it must be serious and meaningless.

The family is the key of Christmas.