Quotes About Tradition

A full day fast without water is observed on the third main day of Chhath Puja. The main ritual of the day is to offer arghya to the setting Sun. On this day we prepare a prasad of sweets, among which Thekua is pretty popular.

During our childhood, my sister and I had no birthday parties. We would take a packet of sweets to school and distribute it to our class-mates. That was it. We were not allowed to go to parties, either.

I am a true desi girl when it comes to my food choices and Indian sweets are my favorite!

I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

In black culture, you know, we used to go swing dancing. We used to go out to go dance and actually have fun.

One of my favorite things to cook is fondue. I'm Swiss. It's a great social meal.

I'm a pure lefty. Everything. I eat with my right hand, but when I was a kid, I was eating with my left. My mom was getting on me that that's not nice, so I switched my hands.

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.

The automobile is an American cultural symbol.

Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.

People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.

As a proud Indigenous man I have a lot of things that are symbolic and have a lot of meaning to me.

Every holiday has unique fare and symbolic foods, but none as much as Rosh Hashana.

Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.

Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

The Catholic religion doesn't have conspicuous symbols.

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins.

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

I was Jewish, through and through, although in our house that didn't mean a whole lot. We never went to synagogue. I never had a Bar Mitzvah. We didn't keep kosher or observe the Sabbath. In fact, I'm not so sure I would have known what the Sabbath looked like if it passed me on the street, so how could I observe it?

I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.