Quotes About Tradition

by the members of the Hotamitanio, or Dog Soldier Society.

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.

One of the things I was taught as a child, and which I taught my children also, is never to go to anyone's house without bringing something — never visit anyone without bringing them a gift.

Unlike other religions in the world the Hindu religion does not claim any one prophet; it does not worship any one god; it does not subscribe to any one dogma; it does not believe in any one philosophic concept; it does not follow any one set of religious rites or performances; in fact, it does not appear to satisfy the narrow traditional features of any religion or creed. It may broadly be described as a way of life and nothing more.

One suspects that the conservatives of left and right don't much like the "mass" and its badly informed preferences. Let us take care of you, they cry. Let tradition celebrated by wise elders, or planning implemented by wise experts, guide you, oh you sadly misled mass. (The ruling lords and the monopolists view the clerisy's conservative theorizing with delight, resting assured that the elders and the planners will inadvertently shield their rents.)

serenading us with "Cielito Lindo." How odd, isn't that Spanish?

Y así como durante siglos hubo un consenso en torno a que la tierra era plana, en el país prevalece un consenso para no cambiar.

Sunday in the south means Church. Sunday in this house, even if we lived in California, would still mean church.

Women were not, no matter their circumstances, considered heads of household.

dining room. On Sunday, supper was eaten early

We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

The bride throws money away because she won't need her own money any more, once she's married.

At first, the grandniece who had booked the event had said that if Dani couldn't make the cake, they'd just skip it. But Dani had pointed out that a party without a cake was really just a meeting.

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

The truth is that Robert Johnson wrestled a superb art out of the blues tradition, an art that has appealed to generations of both black and white listeners, an art that is an essential element of the ongoing progression that is the freedom principle in operation. Forget the context, the mysteries, and the lies; those twenty-nine masters represent artistic truth.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

They are always out of date, and no one follows them anyway.

An Englishman asks you what you know. An American asks you what's in your wallet. An Indian asks you what's your family history.

Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise, you know? ' Oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought!

All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.