Quotes About Tradition

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country, then you will certainly travel back in time, into the old eras!

That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.

To excel the past we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it on the contrary we must feel it under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it.

I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional.

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.

I love Christmas. Christmas is family time.

We have friends in Italy who have these old stoves, and they turn out the most beautiful food. All you really need is time, the best ingredients, and love.

Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.'

The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday.

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.

The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.

I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery, just like God intended.

If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.

There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.

Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.