Quotes about Tradition
The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.
— Thomas Merton
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
— Dennis Prager
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
— GK Chesterton
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
— GK Chesterton
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
— GK Chesterton
My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.
— Bo Sanchez
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.
— Barack Obama
Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
— Maya Angelou
My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
— Billy Sunday
I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.
— Arianna Huffington