Tradition Quotes

"Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives."

"There was a time when people were afraid that film music would totally displace classical music."

"Every musician should announce the raga and the sahityam before performing."

"In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion."

"There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to."

O. Henry

"Over the river, and through the wood, to Grandfather's house we go."

Lydia Maria Child

"Thanksgiving is the king and high priest of all the festivals of the year."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past."

Laurie Colwin

"Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."

O. Henry

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

Gustav Mahler

“Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.”

“Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again; finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony.”

“At United, there are great traditions, which you can't buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others.”

"Let us, then, at the time appointed gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with the choicest flowers of spring-time."

John A. Logan

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors."

G. K. Chesterton

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”

Gustav Mahler