Get off your horse and drink your milk.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

Opportunity makes a thief.

I love Velveeta cheese.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.

I think ‚Hail to the Chief‘ has a nice ring to it.

One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use – a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it’s wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass – the slave narrative – speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying ‚I,‘ meaning ‚we.‘

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

All great peoples are conservative.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

There was a time when people said, ‚Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.‘ Now they just say, ‚Pay him!‘

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you’re 52.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Hunger is the best pickle.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.