Quotes About Tradition

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.

We can _start_ making Christmas and Santa can finish up.

Best of all are the decorations the grandchildren have made ~ fat little stars and rather crooked Santas, shaped out of dough and baked in the oven.

The family is the key of Christmas.

Christmas used to be a good "idea" 'til somebody came up with the concept of giving wrapped up presents to each other... :-)

Hot cocoa and cold toes remind me of Christmas.

Another Christmas PoemBlood Christmas, here again.Let us raise a loving cup:Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make them do the washing-up.

You know what? From now on, I think I'm going to call you Mister Christmas.

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.

That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool

We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.

If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

I come from a liberal tradition. I'm Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I've found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way.