Quotes About Tradition

I think the English are an unbelievably musical nation and always have been.

Although my grandmother was a strict parent and abided my grandfather's kosher diet, as a Nana, she had grown away from religion and was almost unbelievably permissive.

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.

I'm Southern. I like big hair and eyeliner. I want my wedding day to be me, so I'll probably be rocking some big hair and some eyeliner.

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble.

You might be a redneck if you had to remove a toothpick for wedding pictures.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

I would like to have a big white wedding and eventually have a family.

How happy a thing were a wedding, And a bedding, If a man might purchase a wife For a twelvemonth and a day

When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.