Quotes about Tradition

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Je mehr sich die Dinge ändern, desto mehr bleibt alles beim alten.

Eating is a ritual, and rituals make things easier.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

New Year's a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.