Quotes About Tradition

It's the first day of spring. That means this weekend I'll take down my Christmas lights.

That's it?" "That's it. And then you jump in. It's all just tradition. I mean,

It was unconventional, but conventions were there to make it easy on the fakers and cheats.

Like all weddings it had left the strange feeling of futility, the slight sense of depression that comes to English people who have tried, from their strong sense of tradition, to be festive and sentimental and in high spirits too early in the day. The frame of mind supposed to be appropriate to an afternoon wedding can only be genuinely experienced by an Englishman at two o'clock in the morning.

Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

After I was old enough to work, they'd have to make three pies: one for each family and one for Lavon. And I'd guard mine.

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

Twopence a week, and jam every other day.

All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she has extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity.

All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she as extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Holi is here and I urge everyone to experience 'Rang De' with their families.

Folk music takes us back to the roots of our culture.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.

The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.

Growing up in an Italian family, we used our body to convey a message.

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

I don't travel with them, but they can't be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes... I used to play with my family - dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'