Quotes About Tradition

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

The great thing about being a Yankee is that youre always a Yankee.

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.

I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

Manchester United are not just some club. To be part of this club also means to be part of a great history.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets.

Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

Happy is the nation without a history.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.