Traditional Quotes

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.

Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we made today.

Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.