Quotes About Tradition

The kind of people who spoke mostly Yiddish, which is a combination of German and phlegm. This is a language of coughing and spitting; until I was eleven, I wore a raincoat.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

Christianity has no shrines to visit, no dusty remains to venerate, no tombs at which to worship.

Many believe that pagan worship is a thing of the past, but it is ever present—we have just given it a new name: pop culture.

Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Tamaki: A girl should only show skin once she's married, not before!!!

Costume and custom are complex. The headgear of the other sex inspires us to experiment.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

The bowl of the pipe is placed over the smoke, in such a way that this smoke passes through the pipe, coming out the end of the stem which is held towards the heaven. In this manner, Wakan-Tanka is the first to smoke, and by this act the pipe is purified.

There can be no power in a square...

I'm not big on Halloween. I never have been. As a kid my parents would send me out to collect for UNICEF, which just screws up the whole holiday.

Just ate at Hamburg Inn No. 2, home of Democracy and a really great Breakfast. You can't have one without the other. You could but neither would be as good. It should be noted that the first copy of our constitution had a sausage gravy stain on it.

When a custom is actually proved to exist, the next enquiry is into the legality of it; for if it is not a good custom it ought to be no longer used.

In ancient days, tradition says, When knowledge was much stinted— When few could teach and fewer preach, And books were not yet printed— What wise men thought, by prudence taught, They pithily expounded; And proverbs sage, from age to age, In every mouth abounded. O Blessings on the men of yore, Whom wisdom thus augmented, And left a store of easy lore For human use invented.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,

True originality can't begin until you know what you're breaking away from.

To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is.

I think of culture as the unwritten constitution," said Fritz Maytag. "Rome had no written constitution, just a common understanding about how people should behave. When that fell apart, the Roman Empire did, too.

as Sitting Bull was to lament years later, "A cold wind blew across the prairie when the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

To the Sioux, war was the reason for living,

children had children, and his oldest son, Jack, would succeed him as the tribe's Head Man. (Jack Red Cloud would in turn be succeeded by his son James; his son, Chief Oliver Red Cloud, died at ninety-three on July 4, 2013, 110 years to the day after his great-grandfather stepped down as chief.)