382 Quotes About Tradition

There is a reason that the elderly are so insistent on teaching the young. They know what it means to see traditions bond people while change offers new possibilities.

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside.But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread walls.It is not a real house—not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room.That’s when the stories can move in.They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite.

Don't travel to to other people countries. If your not willing to respect their rules, tradition, customs, culture and views. You are not there to mock their ways, but you're there to learn from them.

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

We do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of the future.

What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings of the human race over long stretches of time have left us better or worse off? How, in particular, are we to make sense of modernity—of the erosion of family, tribe, tradition, and religion by the forces of individualism, cosmopolitanism, reason, and science?

I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it's not really that intense or even that serious, but just... you know after a while you get tired of hearing clergymen giving the invocation at various public celebrations and you feel, haven't we outgrown all this? Do we have to listen to this?

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

I honestly think we are entering into an era where relationships are going to be driven more by a mutual hunger for sensuality rather than by the mere concept of love as we traditionally know it.