Quotes about Tradition
Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.
- George W. Bush
Custom is second nature.
- St. Augustine
To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
- Victor Hugo
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
- Victor Hugo
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
- Victor Hugo
To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there.
- Victor Hugo
The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.
- Victor Hugo
Brewing was often viewed as an appropriate activity for widows, who found it hard to farm land.
- Terry Jones
Being from South Louisiana, we're just kind of rootsy.
- Lauren Daigle
Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution.
- Blase J. Cupich
This segregation has erected denominational walls and impoverished many Christians. Unless you happen to be born into just the right tradition, you're brought up to feed on somebody else's diet.
- Gary Thomas
Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom would not willingly drown without first washing their faces.
- Herman Melville