Quotes About Tradition

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

My mom was a little weird. When I was little she would make chocolate frosting. And she'd let me lick the beaters. And then she'd turn them off.

A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before

Christmas: The only time of the year in which one can sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of socks.

Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone's like 'Oh, happy valentine's day!' I even got a Valentine's Day card from my grandmother. How ridiculous is that? We stopped having sex years ago!

Thanksgiving is Americas national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.

If you think Independence Day is Americas defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

No One Diets on Thanksgiving. What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing.

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year.

There has been only one Christmas the rest are anniversaries.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the spirits of things.

Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didnt know what to do! I'd knock on peoples doors and go, "Trick or treat." "No thank you."

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

One of the hallmarks of the baby boomer generation is that it doesnt live like the previous generation. It hasnt yet given up jeans and T-shirts or beer.

Santa Claus has the right idea. Only visit people once a year.