Quotes about Tradition

Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.

I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I've seen modeled in my family - my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

I'm kosher except for times where I eat pork and shellfish.

Gauchos are like cowboys in the United States.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

When people stepped forward and said, "You have heard it interpreted this way, but I tell you it really means this," it was progressive for their day. They were making new claims about what it means to be true to the Bible. What is accepted today as tradition was at one point in time a break from tradition.