Quotes About Tradition

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

When F. W. Woolworth opened his first store, a merchant on the same street tried to fight the new competition. He hung out a big sign: "Doing business in this same spot for over fifty years." The next day Woolworth also put out a sign. It read: "Established a week ago: no old stock.

Why the Jews? Because an ancient tradition of blaming them for disasters, both present and prospective, a tradition deeply rooted in religious rivalry and superstition, persisted into the modern world and even assumed new forms during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Heels up, of course, for good luck.

inside so as not to offend the ancestors.

Everything still revolves around memorization and repetition, the old cornerstones of Chinese education.

Sometimes they seemed to grasp instinctively at the worst of both worlds: the worst modern habits, the worst traditional beliefs.

There is no formal hierarchy in the chaos tradition of magic. There is a division of activity depending on ability as it develops.

When I [see] Christmas lights being strung . . . and Santa Clauses in the store windows, I [know] Thanksgiving [is] not far away.

T]he song of the Sufis, once it starts, never ends. There is a traditional saying that you should never waste your time trying to find real Sufis because they are the ones who will find you. And this turned out to be perfectly true.

And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.

The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abramís wife was named Sarai, and Nahorís wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.

Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.

But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abrahamís household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.

Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.