Quotes About Tradition

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake

In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice that still continues.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

It was a heyoka place, a place of sacred clowns who laughed while they wept. A

Thus it happened that the great-grandsons of Yellow Hair, Custer, were counting coup on the Blue Coats of 1973. For

Sioux and elephants never forget.

For this reason, white historians think that there was no sun-dancing among the Sioux between 1883 and the 1930s, but they are wrong. The dance simply went underground. During all that time, every year some Sioux, somewhere, performed the ceremony. Henry

Sound is important. Our sound is the sound of nature and animals, not the notes of a white man's scale. Our

They made four hundred and five of these little tobacco bundles, one for each of the different plants, "our

Many times I asked my grandmother, "Why don't you teach me the language?" Her answer always was: " 'Cause we want you to get an education, to live a good life. Not have a hard time. Not depend on nobody. Times coming up are going to be real hard. You need a white man's education to live in this world. Speaking Indian would only hold you back, turn you the wrong way.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It's a law or something.