Quotes About Traditional

Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and - if married to princes or kings - be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile.

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type.

I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

Recently, a lot of Americans have swapped the awkward phrase 'same-sex marriage' for the term 'marriage equality'. This phrase is ordinarily implied to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean that marriage is between equals. That's not what traditional marriage was. Throughout much of history in the west, the laws defining marriage made the husband essentially an owner and the wife a possession. Or the man a boss and the woman a slave.

Many heterosexual marriages are childless; many with children break up: they are no guarantee that children will be raised in a house with two parents of two genders. The courts have scoffed at the reproduction and child-raising argument against marriage equality. And the conservatives have not mounted what seems to be their real objection; that they wish to preserve traditional marriage and more than that, traditional gender roles.

Americans have swapped the awkward phrase "same-sex marriage" for the term "marriage equality." The phrase is ordinarily employed to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean that marriage is between equals. That's not what traditional marriage was.

The courts have scoffed at the reproduction and child-raising argument against marriage equality. And the conservatives have not mounted what seems to be their real objection: that they wish to preserve traditional marriage and more than that, traditional gender roles.

Recently, a lot of Americans have swapped the awkward phrase "same-sex marriage" for the term "marriage equality." The phrase is ordinarily employed to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean that marriage is between equals. That's not what traditional marriage was.

The traditional versions of history, the conventional sources of news encourage us to fix our gaze on that stage.

Whymper se stal tradi?ním horolezcem – pÃ…â"¢esnÄ› tím, kterým na Matterhornu být nechtÄ›l.

Traditional Chinese administration was a well-oiled machine, which, barring a crisis, would keep ticking over. Initiatives were not required and rarely offered. State policies depended almost entirely on the dynamism of the throne.

Pero cuando, sustituidas éstas (las lámparas eléctricas con pantalla de papel) por los candelabros, de luz todavía más tenue, se observan las bandejas y boles bajo el parpadeo de la trémula llama, se descubre cómo el brillo de todos esos objetos lacados, hondo y espeso como las aguas de un estanque, va revistiéndose de un encanto completamente diferente al que había mostrado hasta entonces.

Today we have become so familiar with the intolerance that has unfortunately been a characteristic of monotheism that we may not appreciate that this hostility toward other gods was a new religious attitude. Paganism was an essentially tolerant faith: provided that old cults were not threatened by the arrival of a new deity, there was always room for another god alongside the traditional pantheon.

Chinese surgeons are the best in the world cos they're always dealing with kids with four legs or two heads in China, but Chinese doctors are rubbish when it comes to getting rid of a rash or a cold. There's a Chinese medicine shop round the corner from where I live and they give you twigs and leaves to eat if you have some eczema or flu. This shows the Chinese are not as up-to-date with everyday illnesses, yet they are great when it comes to removing an extra head.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

I think men are still attracted to what they've always found attractive, which is a woman who is feminine, soft, real, and . . . womanly.

You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.

He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be called a marriage.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.

I'm a low-tech man in a high-tech world.

I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.