Quotes About Tradition

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

You never see a French person eating alone.

You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

As I went about my work then as a young woman, and still now when I am old, Grandmam has been often close to me in my thoughts. And again I come to the difficulty of finding words. It is hard to say what it means to be at work and thinking of a person you loved and love still who did that same work before you and who taught you to do it. It is a comfort ever and always, like hearing the rhyme come when you are singing a song.

A living culture of work lived close to the ground, carried forward into time in the ordinary work and speech of every day, is as far as possible unlike any record that may be made of it. It may be documented as 'oral history', its stories may be remembered and written into books, it may be pictured in old photographs, but no true likeness of it can ever be reenacted or reproduced. When such a culture dies, it is not only dead, it is gone .

One of the best days of the year, for me, was Decoration Day, when people would come from near and far with flowers to decorate the graves. Besides being beautiful and fragrant with all the roses and peonies and boughs of mock orange, it was a kind of grace and benediction, and a kind of homecoming. I liked to make a show of being busy in the graveyard so I could watch and listen.

You might be thinking by now that I had a lot of aunts and uncles, but that was just the courtesy of those days; children were not allowed to go around first-naming older people.

Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.

As I am sure you know, we seafaring men are a superstitious lot.

The sun is setting," he said, and Jordan rose obediently to charge the glasses. The sundowner whisky was already a traditional ending to the day in this land north of the Limpopo.