Disraeli
"A precedent embalms a principle."
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William Somerset Maugham
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer”
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T.S. Eliot
“A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.”
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Author Unknown
"Details done daily determine the difference."
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Henry James
“It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.”
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Anthony J. D'Angelo
“Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.”
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Theodore Bikel
“I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.”
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Lorna Luft
“There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.”
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Robin Fox
"A meal is about civilizing children. It's about teaching them to be a member of their culture."
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George F. Will
"The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children"
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Ellen Goodman
“Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.”
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Simeon Strunsky
"A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar."
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Irving Kristol
“People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.”
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Winston Churchill
“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril”
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Jose Bergamin
“Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing”
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Susan Lieberman
“Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.”
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Gandhi
"It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives."
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Colossians 2:8
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
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Susan Lieberman
“Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.”
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Dalai Lama
“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”
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1 Peter 1:18
“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers.”
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Author Unknown
“Family traditions are the glue that binds one generation to another. They give kids and parents something to look forward to, as well as something to count on…throughout the year.”
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Thomas Carlyle
"What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it."
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Author Unknown
"Family traditions are a means of passing down the heritage from the past to the future. They serve as a bond between parent and child, so that a happy home life can be experienced and passed on from one generation to another."
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G. K. Chesterton
“What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it”
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
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2 Thessalonians 3:6
“Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.”
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Author Unknown
"Family traditions serve as a uniting force for family members as they go through life. These memories are points that people can depend upon and associate with happiness and love throughout their lives."
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Author Unknown
“Traditions. Those little rituals passed down from generation to generation that help shape your family by creating a sense of unity, warmth and closeness. They create memories that fill your mind with peace, love, happiness, and security.”
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Tradition Defined
“1. The handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, etc. from generation to generation by word of mouth or by practice. 2. A long-established or inherited way of thinking or acting. 3. Acts repeated so often they become almost automatic.”
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Nancy Gibbs
“Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use.
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Brigham Young
"Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare…The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood."
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Buddha
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
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George Q. Cannon
“The greatest obstacle that has ever opposed the spread of truth and the diffusion of correct principles is the traditions of the people. So potent is their influence and so much importance is there attached to them that truth is but seldom received, even when supported by the best of reasons and evidence, if it comes in contact with them. They are set up as a standard or criterion by which every new principle or idea must be measured and judged; and whether they be true or false, correct or incorrect, by its agreement or disagreement with them must it be accepted or rejected. Every advocate of truth, whether religious or scientific, has experienced this…”
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