Quotes About Tradition

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed.

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.

We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.

What is gayer than believing in a household god?

The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Saturday, and the Muslims gave Him Friday. God has a three-day weekend.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

I don't believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.