Quotes About Tradition

A book is a sign of the age-old effort to maintain what one generation hands on to another...

Bread is the warmest, kindest of words. Write it always with a capital letter, like your own name.

There sounds the horn! Breakfast is ready. A most useful and salutary custom is that of breakfast. One may work with the hands before breakfast, but not much with the head. The machine must be wound up.

I married a woman who loves to camp, and I am what you would call "indoorsy"... My wife always brings up, "Camping's a tradition in my family." Hey, it was a tradition in everyone's family 'til we came up with the house.

The ancient Mexicans used to spend all the day and half the night in dancing with only cacao for nourishment.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in a living room where eight or ten people have just opened their Christmas presents. It should not be cleaned up too quickly.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.

It is in an old kitchen that the best food is made.

When told the reason for Daylight Saving Time the old Indian said, "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."

Here's to old Adam's crystal ale, Clear, sparkling, and divine, Fair H2O, long may you flow! We drink your health (in wine).

Blood is hotter than water.

Ghosts never appear on Christmas Eve.

Nothin's as mean as givin' a little child somethin' useful fer Christmus.

Who brings a tale takes two away.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

Grandma serves kisses, counsel, and cookies daily.

It will not help us if this tradition is created for us, to be read about in yet another book. To create a wilder self, the self must live the life of the wild, mold a particular form of human character, a form of life. Relics will not do, tourism will not do, books will not do.

It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?

The royal Mongol women raced horses, commanded in war, presided as judges over criminal cases, ruled vast territories, and sometimes wrestled men in public sporting competitions. They arrogantly rejected the customs of civilized women of neighboring cultures, such as wearing the veil, binding their feet, or hiding in seclusion.

keeping with the laconic Mongol traditions, he warned his sons not to talk too much. Only say what needs to be said. A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words: "He can never be happy until his people are happy." He stressed to them the importance of vision, goals, and a plan. "Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others

highest mountain always had the title of khan. Rivers and lakes that never ran dry bore the title khatun

officers composed their orders in rhyme, using a standardized system known to every soldier. The Mongol warriors used a set of fixed melodies and poetic styles into which various words could be improvised according to the meaning of the message. For a soldier, hearing the message was like learning a new verse to a song that he already knew. The

At the end of the debate, unable to convert or kill one another, they concluded the way most Mongol celebrations concluded, with everyone simply too drunk to continue.