Quotes about Tradition
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
- John Barrymore
God does not bind the ancient folk to outward doctrine as if they were learning their ABC's.
- John Calvin
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
- Ernest Hemingway
every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
- Charles Dickens
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
- Edmund Burke
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.
- Max Born
History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
- Edmund Burke
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
- Elie Wiesel
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
- Babe Ruth
A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.
- Confucius
Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.
- James H. Cone
There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.
- Ronald Reagan