Quotes About Tradition

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.

There is a biblical injunction to tell your children, but the sages who created the Seder several thousand years ago understood that it had to be more than just speaking: that in order for something to connect so emotionally in human beings, it had to be relived.

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

The old-school Undertaker is my legacy. It's probably what I'm going to be remembered for.

You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.

There used to be a tradition within the Hispanic community that, regardless of your political party, you would support undocumented immigrants. That ended with Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

I'm really excited to share cabaret, the art form, not just with the generations that are above me, but also my generation and the generation under me. I think it's an art form that's incredibly important, and I think that my generation is a little unfamiliar with it.

I never heard about tefillin. I was unfamiliar with the deep history and ritual of being an Orthodox Jew. Before you get out of bed, you say a prayer, and then you get out of bed, say another one.

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think their method is best, but most people are wrong. Mine is the only right way, and on this subject I feel almost evangelical.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.

One way or another, all humans are superstitious.

What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family?

Pay attention to proverbs.

Why the law of our forefathers are brought to nought, and the written covenants come to none effect-

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.