Quotes about Tradition

A curious person embraces the tension between his religion and something new, wrestles with it and through it, and then decides whether to embrace the new idea or reject it.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

Custom is second nature.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to pass from father to son.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order.