Quotes About Tradition

What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

Following my mother's footsteps was the surest way out.

When the matriarch is gone, so is the herd's collective memory.

Religion often gets in the way of God.' – BONO, AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST, FEBRUARY 2, 2006

We move through our days with the comfort of familiarity, waking at the same time each morning and almost always the same way...

Old habits die hard; most Americans still cling to what they were taught as children.

Today's orthodoxy thrives on someone else doing the cooking. The single-service packet from the supermarket has replaced the sit-down home-cooked meal as the most common food choice. Easy foodism disengages people from the process and creates a level of food illiteracy unthinkable just a few short decades ago.

The supersession of the round dance, choral and figure dances by dancing à deux, whether this take the form of gyrating as in the waltz or polka or the slitherings and slidings and even acrobatics of contemporary dancing, is probably to be regarded as a symptom of declining culture. There

You people in all parts of the world, who have passed away over the ages, you did not live only to fertilize the earth with your ashes, so that at the end of time your descendants could become happy through European culture

Going up to the Alm-Uncle

Whether we commit seppuku by our own hands or are crucified by the executioner, our ultimate end is to die. This is a band of death, but death with honor!

those old women at Westminster

Bushmills was supposedly the whiskey favored by Protestants, while Jameson's was the Catholics' choice.

He wore the headdress of a Red Indian and was making the sounds to match, a terrible howling that would have given a deaf man a headache.

There are two kinds of fool. One says, 'This is old, and therefore good.' And one says, 'This is new, and therefore better.

The old dos not accept the new. Not, at least, the new that never was old.

NO NOTES. This was truly an oral event. Storytellers didn't read their stories; they told them, which allowed for eye contact.

I was brought up in southern Massachusetts, where it was thought that mythology was a subject that we should all grasp. It was very much a part of my education. The easiest way to parse the world is through mythology.

the Mackenzies regarded all this foolishness with the deepest respect, as if it had some genuine significance. They may have suffered from an indiscriminate sense of the past or from an inability to understand that the past plays no part in our happiness.

in those days I didn't drink, smoke, swear, or speak Italian.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

We ourselves did not invent family habits. For all eternity, your family is like mine, a dysfunctional lifestyle and a passing of habits from generation to generation. Not out of malice, spite, or hate, but what was known true and what was known best. As ineffective as these habits were, we knew no better way of loving one another.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.