Quotes About Tradition

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Habit is a second nature.

Custom is almost a second nature.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

Just as when spring comes, Nature celebrates, When Navaratri comes, the Spirit celebrates.

Water is sacred to all Human Beings. If you do not have water, you cannot have life. I always remember to honor and pour the water because it is traditional.

To preserve the past is to save the future...

Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people.

The real rain dance is when the rain dances.

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.