Quotes about Tradition

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

Oh, Paddy, dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round? The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground! No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his colour can't be seen, For there's a cruel law agin' the Wearin' o' the green.

Homecoming unites the past and the present.

Grandma quilts have love in every stitch.

Homecoming means tradition.

May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah.

Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.

Let them learn first to show piety at home.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

We're trying to keep the 'foot' in 'football.'

Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things... she held up four big-knuckled fingers. ...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing... She closed her fingers into a fist. ...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.