Quotes about Inherited Customs

Indya Moore

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

Katherine Heigl

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

Hina Khan

I asked my mother, 'Why shouldn't I act?' She said, 'Nobody in the family has acted, so why should you?'

Germaine de Staël

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

George R. R. Martin

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

John P. Kotter

Tradition is a very powerful force.

Abdallah Al-Maarri

Traditions come from the past, of high import if they be True ;, Ay, but weak is the chain of those who warrant their truth. Consult thy reason and let perdition take others all :, Of all the conference Reason best will counsel and guide.

Al-Maarri’s quotations are not only meaningful in their own right, but they illustrate the openness and free thinking that was allowed in the early days of Islam before about 1100. If anyone wrote such things today in most Islamic countries he would at least be jailed if not executed for blasphemy. Al-Maari view of the unreliability of authority preceded Western philosophers like Spinoza by over 500 years. When the Jews and Christians, and the Muslims of the day, read Spinoza, they all excommunicated him. But al-Maari, in the intellectual flowing of Islam in Syria at the time was unmolested.

Lorna Luft

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

Gael Garcia Bernal

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.

Inherited Customs Quotes