Quotes About Tradition

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

I'm against redefining marriage historically 5,000 years... because then it'll be re-defined. What if it's between a brother and a sister?

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.

On a baby of his own: You gotta be married first. That's my rule: marriage then baby!

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

Well, the one thing I've thought about is having dad give me away. You know when he takes your hand and he puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever wanted.