114 Quotes About Traditions

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.

MURRY: Why do we even celebrate the New Year? It's just this arbitrary quirk of how we measure time in years, right? Midnight tonight is the very same transition from day to day that we do every 24 hours. But this thing in my hands, it feels real in a way the numbered calendar box never does. Why? What makes midnight tonight any different?

NOEL: And even when I don't stay up until midnight, I still enjoy the tradition of New Year's resolutions. What can I say? I like setting personal goals and challenging myself to improve. I suppose I could do it on any day of the year, but the New Year is as good a day as any. It's a fresh start.

Love in the air. Love has no form. It can have any shape and size. It has no definition. In fact, even defining love is incorrect. Love defies all rules and boundaries. It is not a prisoner to set norms or traditions.

I think of myself as a descendant of traditions that would not have wanted me. Right? So, as long as I'm a queer writer, I'm Whitman's descendant. And he can't do nothing about it.

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.

I don't like these outdated traditions.I don't like this love for tombs,I don't like this kind of respect,I don't like itI don't want this untimely honor,I'd never change one moment of my lifeFor thousands of golden deaths.I'd never change one ounce of respect while aliveFor thousands of tombs when I'm dead.

The most bizarre things in the universe isn't weird meteorites, odd comets or strange black holes! The most bizarre things in the universe is the traditions, beliefs and cultures of this world!