Tradition Quotes - Page 4

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.

Shamrocks And roses In an ever green flock Now Up to your noses Turning into a high stock! People nice and seen All around you green! These lucky streams Realizing major dreams. In strives, when in pain Call oh call up my name, Know it isn't in vain...

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

They had lived down the road from each other as children. Everyday they walked home from school hand in hand; they were childhood sweethearts, they were bestfriends. And when they came of age, in the time-honoured Sri Lankan tradition they were given in marriage. To other people.

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them.

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.

He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.

Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition.