Quotes About Tradition

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

I grew up with a Christmas tree, I'm going to stay with a Christmas tree.

In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.

The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!"

In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.

Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.

In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.

I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

My son is a tree surgeon and gets me a lovely tree. I like to put it up early, as I can't wait for Christmas. We dress it with decorations that have been in the family for years.

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

It still feels weird to spend money on Christmas trees. Back when Mom was alive, we'd go out "tree hunting." That's what she called it, anyway. I think other people might use the word "trespassing.

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

No. He'd make sure they went to see her parents on Christmas. Besides, it would be nice to have a real Christmas dinner that didn't involve senators or a live wild boar they hunted and devoured raw.