Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side.

It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That’s a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It’s a way of organizing society, perhaps.

We have this beautiful tradition at Bayern that we all get together with our families after the game in a room and celebrate the wins. That is why it hurts a lot more when we lose.

The true beauty of baseball is found in its traditions, from the seventh-inning stretch to the crack of the bat

The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it….Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.

It is very, very important that I take them back to Ireland every year. It’s so easy to get caught up in the mass culture here. It’s important that they know they have another tradition and a heritage that is a gift to them.

I have a very good opportunity here to do something that only three guys were able to do, we understand the tradition. We never forget about this one. But once you close the visor, it’s another race( where) we’ve got to make it happen.

While Covid again means we can’t celebrate quite as we may have wished, we can still enjoy the many happy traditions. Be it the singing of carols (as long as the tune is well known); decorating the tree; giving and receiving presents; or watching a favourite film where we already know the ending, it’s no surprise that families so often treasure their Christmas routines.

Such a blend of traditions serves to make us stronger, individually and collectively, by providing the ingredients needed for social, political and economic resilience.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

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.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.

It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it maybe that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.

He has no traditions to bind him or guide him; and his impulse is to break away from the occupation his father has followed, and make a new way for himself.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.