Quotes About Tradition

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.

Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

Christmas itself may be called into question, If carried so far it creates indigestion.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Age is honourable and youth is noble.

Habit is a form of exercise.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

The hair is the richest ornament of women. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.