Quotes About Tradition

The madness of Christmas is not to be resisted by any human means. It either stealthily creeps or crudely batters its way into every fastness or fortress of prudence all over the land.

When the faith dies, the culture dies, the civilization dies, the people die.

this is not the country we grew up in. This is a different country. And given where America is headed morally and culturally, we are not far from a day when traditionalist Catholics will be saying, "This isn't my country anymore.

The automatic use of Du, even to strangers if they were friends of friends, was very surprising. Sie, it seemed, meant relegation to the outer darkness and people had been known to fight with swords about the matter.

He should have known that the Irish, in spite of a handful of anti-clerical writers, were by nature priest-servers.

But it's a tradition, as if that alone is reason enough. Slavery and buying your wife were traditions, too.

The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.

No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that would result in a lot of shitty cheese.

There is a phrase in the Jewish tradition, Yimakh shemo, which means, 'May his name be erased.' It is an insult - or really, a curse - reserved for those who have done the gravest harm. May their name be blotted out. May they, and the hurt they have created, be forgotten.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak. Bide and borrow. Chimney smoke. Barrel. Barley. Stone and stave. Wind and water. Misbehave.

Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak. Bide and borrow. Chimney smoke. Barrel. Barley. Stone and stave. Wind and water. Misbehave.Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak. Bide and borrow. Chimney smoke. Barrel. Barley. Stone and stave. Wind and water. Misbehave.

Vashet shook a finger and cuffed the young girl on the side of her head. It was the same scolding any child receives. Stay out of the neighbor's garden. Don't tease the Bentons' sheep. Don't play tag among the thousand spinning knives of your people's sacred tree.

Tradition, my boy, and superstition. They are one and the same, anyway.

Stories don't need to be new to bring you joy. Some stories are like familiar friends. Some are dependable as bread. Still,

Pero los humanos somos animales de costumbres. Tendemos a caminar por los surcos que nos vamos labrando.

Los humanos somos animales de costumbres. Tendemos a caminar por los surcos que nos vamos labrando.

Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.

That's how they made them years ago, before metal strings, before they knew how to brace a long neck. It's incredible. There's more careful engineering in that swan neck than in any three cathedrals.

He was very suspicious of inventions, for they always meant that some rule would have to be broken.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction) , November 17, 2010)

The old world and the emerging one served up in the brick and mortar of the artisan and the architects.

Wilma Mankiller, chief of the Cherokee Nation, submitted the eighty-five-letter Cherokee alphabet, hoping that her language would still be spoken a hundred years from now.