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.
Mahatma GandhiThe 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.
Elvis PresleyTradition 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.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.
Mr. TYou’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.
Margaret AtwoodI 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.
Dalai LamaThanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma BombeckIn 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.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiTea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Alice WalkerI will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles DickensI got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.
Steven WrightIn the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
Jordan PetersonI’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.
Vivienne WestwoodA lot of churches have not moved with the times.
Joel OsteenIn 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.
Maya AngelouAll conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWithout tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston ChurchillOnce 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.
Erma BombeckOne aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.
Robert Baden-PowellI don’t travel with them, but they can’t be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes… I used to play with my family – dad, my grandpa, my uncles.
Bad BunnyFor 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.
PlatoSome 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.
Alan WattsThe 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.
Harper LeeRitual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTradition is the illusion of permanence.
Woody AllenBecoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
Edmund HillaryI never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
Erma BombeckEvery generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David ThoreauI hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
Brian EnoPuerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.
Bad BunnyMy grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.
Maya AngelouFishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert HooverPart 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.
Alice WalkerWhen I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
Brian EnoI was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.
Mr. TPart of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you’re 52.
Alice WalkerIt is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund BurkeI was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.
Dave GrohlBe not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander PopeI truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.
Lou HoltzAll great peoples are conservative.
Thomas CarlyleFree 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.
Noam ChomskyMy 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.
Stephen CurryIf 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.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
Dwayne JohnsonDon’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador DaliGet off your horse and drink your milk.
John WayneTradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiDoubt 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.
Thich Nhat HanhWhen you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
Thich Nhat HanhIn our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.
Lyndon B. JohnsonFood is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.
Anthony BourdainWhen 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.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiAutobiography 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.‘
Maya AngelouMy roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinOld deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David ThoreauIf 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.
Pope FrancisThe 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.
Terry PratchettMany Tibetans sacrifice their lives.
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