Quotes About Tradition

Homecoming unites the past and the present.

Old Custom, which to-day allows Addresses such as this; When timid lovers breathe their vows, And sing of promised bliss; Emboldens one, who else would fear To make his feelings known...

Old Custom says, that rhyming words Must form the Valentine; Yet jingling verse but ill accords With sentiments like mine...

Remember back when we used to eat cake after someone blew all over it? Man, were we wild!

TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.

ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. ACADEMY, n. (from academe). A modern school where football is taught.

Well, it has happened again. The Earth has circled four times around the sun, astronomers have designated this a leap year and anxious bachelors won't answer their telephones until midnight.

"Thirty days hath September," Every person can remember; But to know when Easter comes Puzzles even scholars some. When March the twenty-first is past Just watch the silvery moon, And when you see it full and round, Know Easter'll be here soon. After the moon has reached its full, Then Easter will be here, On the very Sunday after, In each and every year. And if it hap on Sunday The moon should reach its height, The Sunday following this event Will be the Easter bright.

Who answers when you knock on wood?

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

Conservatism is the negation of Ideology.

Es ist ein Brauch von Alters her: Wer Sorgen hat, hat auch Likör. Doch wer zufrieden und vergnügt, sieht zu, daß er auch welchen kriegt.

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

The Christian always mixes prudence with his devotion. He is willing to serve three gods, but draws the line at one wife.

I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.

I leave you two things, which, if you hold fast to them shall preserve you from all error: the Book of Allah, and my Sunna. Your downfall begins with your departure from these two.

For similarly unclear reasons, adult men did not take part in this. However, it does seem clear that by consuming the brain tissue of their relatives who had themselves died of kuru, the Fore had spread the disease through their female population. Thus, a culturally transmitted practice led to catastrophe, both for the Fore and for their genes.

Galef and Tomasello come from a null-hypothesis-testing, experimental psychology background. The null hypothesis is something like "chimpanzees do not possess culture," with culture being defined by something like "traditional behavior transmitted by imitation or teaching." They could not show in their own or others' experimental studies that captive chimpanzees could imitate or teach, so did not reject the null hypothesis. No culture.

Og silungur gengur þar á milli beina, fiskur sem enginn vill sjá á borðum hér. Hér hafa sextán kynslóðir búið í svengd og sjö þúsund kynslóðir af bleikju dáið í hárri og feitri elli. Hungrið er vofa sem alin er á hjátrú sem nærist á heimsku sem sefur hjá trú. Sá sem fyrstur veiðir í þessu vatni mun eta silung með landnámsbragði.

Yeah, but I'm a Croatian Catholic. There's nothing religious about that. It only means you go to church two times in your life. When you marry and when you die.

It is a very old and widely spread superstition that when a dog howls at night someone not far away is dying or will soon die. Many people are uncomfortable when they hear a dog howling after dark, not because they believe that dogs have any knowledge that death is present or coming, but because their ancestors for many centuries believed that the howling of a dog was ominous

What a sordid tradition of violence we have in our country—and what an alarming record of assassinations and assassination attempts.

But we...are more bound by custom than by law, and old customs die hard

Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you were born, it's an idea and state of mind that seems imparted at birth. It's more than loving fried chicken, football, beer, and country music. It's being hospitable and devoted to screen porches, magnolias, red velvet cake, coca cola, and each other. We don't become southern--we're born that way.