Quotes About Tradition

It takes two years for the salt to reach the center of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

The party did not bother to even produce a new platform, for the first time since 1856.

You normally shouldn't do this, though — it's not the Python way.

bypasses the accumulation of traditional cultural capital (that is, a relatively rarefied knowledge of great authors and their works) in favor of a more immediate identification with the charisma of authorship.

valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.

people of tradition, faith, and custom do not reject science or reason, but they do not worship them, either. They have learned and experienced the value of eternal truths and past wisdom, including from the ancients, which reflects the basis of America's founding, as concisely set forth in the Declaration of Independence.

Tell me a story" is as old as humankind. It's a prehistoric request, going back to when people sat around fires in caves. A novelist's first goal, above all, is to tell a story.

When people sat in caves, they told stories. It was for sharing, learning, entertaining. Storytelling is as old as we are. It will never die.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

Vengeance," Pino said calmly, feeling weirdly out of his body. "Italians believe in it, mon général. Italians believe bloodshed is good for the wounded soul.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

There is no architecture in New Orleans, except in the cemeteries.

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath-day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween!

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.