Quotes About Tradition

The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinions and even into those of our grandfathers.

They felt the poorhouse would always be there, exempt from time. That some residents died, and others came, did not occur to them; a few believed that the name of the prefect was still Mendelssohn. In a sense the poorhouse would indeed outlast their homes. The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinion and even into those of our grandfathers.

But now nuns have blended into everybody else or else faded away. Vocations drying up, nobody wants to be selfless anymore, everybody wants their fun.

Their houses are the size of small airplane hangars; their carved

Foo Kyu' is just a very unfortunate cultural coincidence. Just think about his poor son, 'Foo Kyu Two.'

There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.

We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don't view our faith through the eyes of culture.

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.

My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.

I guess getting down on your knees runs in the family

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

My family came from Ecuador.

We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.