John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

I have always listened to elders in my life.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

I have been raised to value my family.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

We cannot afford to neglect some recognition of our past, even though we gaze into the future.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

We are building our own tradition of families for which we demand respect.