Quotes About Tradition

The blessing was an empty ritual, she knew, but rituals and ceremonies had power in the eyes of the ignorant.

Small wonder he refused to marry. Why buy a cow when there were udders all around begging to be milked?

These are northmen, Uncle. The north remembers.

Robb, listen to me. Once you have eaten of his bread and salt, you have the guest right, and the laws of hospitality protect you beneath his roof.

The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

Queen Visenya put a sword into her son's hand when he was three. Supposedly the first thing he did with the blade was butcher one of the castle cats.

Septa Mordane said boar hunting was not for ladies, and mother only promised that when she was older she might have her own hawk. She was older now, but if she had a hawk she'd eat it.

Joffrey received loving kisses from the bride's father and his two new brothers, Loras and Garlan. No one seemed in any great rush to kiss Tyrion. When the king and queen had taken their seats, the High Septon rose to lead a prayer.

He was old enough to know that it was not truly him they shouted for—it was the harvest they cheered, it was Robb and his victories, it was his lord father and his grandfather and all the Starks going back eight thousand years.

the Dothraki believed that all things of importance in a man's life must be done beneath the open sky.

Summer Islanders. That's how they mourn. They answer death with life.

Your people will not love you if you take from them the gods they have always worshiped, and give them one whose very name sounds queer on their tongues.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Habit is stronger than reason

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.

When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.

Errors sanctified by long usage are not easily relinquished.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

When I was your age we had men in the church—don't frown, it makes me want to clout you—men I say—make what you like of the word-heads of a parish, masters, my boy, rulers.  They could hold a whole country together, that sort could—with a mere lift of the chin.  Oh, I know what you're going to say: they fed well, drank good wine and didn't object to a game of cards.  Well, what of it?