Quotes About Tradition

Mary alone insisted on wearing a white gown.

so refused to accept the usual title of Dowager Queen.

Instead, she insisted on being called Queen Mother for the rest of her life.

she finished, kissing the crucifix and making the sign of the cross in the Catholic way.

Sex was obligatory for a queen consort of France.

shall continue to be called the kingdom of Scotland and retain its ancient laws and liberties.

The development of adversary criminal trial raised an acute theoretical challenge, which has never been satisfactorily resolved in the Anglo-American tradition: how to justify the truth-impairing tendencies of a procedure that remits to partisans the work of gathering and presenting the evidence upon which accurate adjudication depends.

The wooing of those days was prompt and practical. There was no time for the gradual approaches of an idler and more conventional age. It is related of one Stout, one of the legendary Nimrods of Illinois, who was well and frequently married, that he had one unfailing formula of courtship. He always promised the ladies whose hearts he was besieging that they should live in the timber where they could pick up their own firewood.

To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.

A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine

Doctrine without its correspondent principle remains barren, if not lifeless, of which the Greek Church seems an instance; or

No touching Baby Jesus." "But we're his parents!" proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. "Mary Beth," Barb Wiggin said, "if you touch the Baby Jesus, I'm putting you in a cow costume.

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

Kanonische Veränderungen über das Weihnachtslied

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

Goodness gracious!" my grandmother said. "Why didn't you begin with Harvard?" "It's not important to him," my mother said. But Harvard '45 was important enough to my grandmother to calm her troubled hands; they left her brooch alone, and returned to rest in her lap.

What would bring the Confederacy to an inglorious end was the same thing that had so foolishly created it a rigidity of thought, a clinging to old ways, a refusal to adapt and change.

What is your opinion of a society that considers Turkey in the Straw to be one of the pillars, as it were, of its culture?

For Christmas, Mrs. Levy always compiled not a gift list but rather a list of the injustices and brutalities she had suffered since August. The girls got this list in their stockings. The only gift Mrs. Levy asked of the girls was that they attack their father. Mrs. Levy loved Christmas.

Scholars gather in scholarly assemblages to hear in elegant statement what all have heard before. Again, it is not a negligible rite, for its purpose is not to convey knowledge but to beatify learning and the learned.

Mongolians will never eat a marmot's armpits because "they contain the soul of a dead hunter.

Religion is inherently conservative; even one proposing a new God only creates a new order. The question "why" is too deep for science. Science instead believes it can only learn "how" something occurs.

In China the wind was originally regarded as a demon that caused illness

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.