Quotes About Tradition

My uncle Jimmy took liver salts twice a day for 40 years. He died on Sunday, was buried Wednesday and the following Friday they had to go to the cemetery to beat his liver to death with a stick.

All New Years is to me is for taking down your dumb Christmas decorations. People who put up Christmas decorations, all they're saying is, 'Hey, we're not Jews.'

What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

I'll tell you what I like about Chinese people: they're hanging in there with the chop sticks, aren't they? You know they've seen the fork. They're staying with the sticks.

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.

My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.

On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since.

Motto for latin countries: If you're not late, you're not on time

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers.

Seriously, why was it tradition to stand when the bride came in? It blocked her from seeing her groom, who was the only reason she was there in the first place.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.

We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

The future has an ancient heart.