Quotes about Tradition

The role of matriarch and patriarch are distinct, and in the King family, we have been blessed with strong examples of both.

Of the three traditional ways of making a living — mud, blood, and grease — preaching involves all three: the mud pies of creativity, the blood bank of living in the Word, and the grease pit of hard work and dirty hands.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

History is bunk.