Quotes About Tradition

In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.

European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a lineage to French baroque opera. But what a difference!

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have.

The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.

Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.