Quotes About Tradition

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to give people newer and fresh rituals. A party of thinkers must undertake to do this. Old rituals must be rejected and new ones substituted.

in China, where no man gets a title until he is dead; and that is a better way, after all, than with us. When a man does something very good there, they give a title of nobility to his father, who is dead, or to his grandfather.

give a mental assent to the customs of their forefathers

On the philosophic side the disciples of the Great Master dashed themselves against the eternal rocks of the Vedas and could not crush them, and on the other side they took away from the nation that eternal God to which every one, man or woman, clings so fondly. And the result was that Buddhism had to die a natural death in India. At the present day there is not one who calls oneself a Buddhist in India, the land of its birth. But

As the French say, there are three sexes—men, women, and clergymen.

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts.

What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

Who was Tanta? Why Tanta was just Tanta. All of the other aunts could be called Tanta Rivka. Tanta Frieda or Tanta Fannie, but not this Tanta. She had a name - it was Minnie - but the children never thought of using it. She was Tanta - The Tanta...

I hardly think you'd be comfortable in this Succah for ever and ever," Papa said. "But I know just how you feel. It is nice to be making with your own hands the thing you are going to use. I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll leave the little house up for about a month after the holiday so you can enjoy it." "Oh, Papa," the children all cried, "how wonderful!

It's a lot more comfortable to live in a world where the rules still apply.

In his view, the ancient Japanese way, where men would meet and "bow to each other for as much as half an hour speaking words of greeting, gradually moving closer together, understanding the necessity of entering another's consciousness carefully,"1 was a good one.

Her grandmother's pistol passed down, like a recipe for strudel.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

They often chose the retention model: catch all you can. Often they were not leading by instinct but by tradition. They kept the peace and maintained the status quo but later became frustrated as the church suffered from their indecisive leadership.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Trzeba wstawa?. Trzeba podnie?? si? z ?ó?ka i wykona? pi?tna?cie czynno?ci, nad których sensem nie wolno si? zastanawia?. Naro?l automatycznych przyzwyczaje?. B?ogos?awiony rak bezmy?lnego ?adu tradycji.