Quotes About Tradition

Using rage as fuel for living was a family tradition.

Nos morituri te salutamus." The traditional greeting of the gladiators: We who are about to die salute you…

You must remember that I am descended from the Northumberland Ballingers, not the Hampshire Ballingers. The women of my side of the family do not care a great deal for Society's rules.

We southerners worship our ancestors.

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: [from academe] A modern school where football is taught.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

We believe now," the children and the fathers and the mothers all said to each other with the light of faith that little lame Stephen had inspired on their faces. "We believe that Saint Nicholas will always come to us as long as there is one child alive in the village." "In the village!" echoed little Stephen. "In the whole world!" he shouted triumphantly.

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.

Religious folk could be so deliciously predictable. He could set his watch by their hypocrisy.

oui je précise et j'insiste: pourquoi l'Occident chrétien qui a une longue tradition d'intolérance, qui a toujours eu du mal à coexister avec "l'Autre" a-t-il su produire des sociétés respectueuse de la liberté d'expression, alors que le monde musulman, qui a longtemps pratiqué la coexistence, apparaît désormais comme une citadelle de fanatisme?

Ce serait même désolant pour un peuple, quel qu'il soit, que de vénérer son histoire plus que son avenir.

La proverbiale alchimie levantine n'opère manifestement

Parce qu'il y a toujours eu, dans le discours de ceux qui portent traditionnellement les idées du conservatisme, une tonalité identitaire – souvent fondée sur la religion, la nation, la terre, la civilisation, la race, ou un mélange de tout cela.

Si je juge infantile l'idée d'un couple ouvert à tous les courants d'air, je n'ai pas beaucoup d'estime non plus pour les couples qui sentent le refermé ; et je n'ai que mépris pour le couple à l'ancienne, fondé sur la soumission de la femme à l'homme, ou sur la castration de l'homme par la femme, ou les deux à la fois.

Nous conservons pieusement la légende selon laquelle la transmission se fait « verticalement », d'une génération à la suivante, au sein des familles, des clans, des nations et des communautés de croyants ; alors que la vraie transmission est de plus en plus « horizontale », entre contemporains, qu'ils se connaissent ou pas, qu'ils s'aiment ou se détestent.

All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility, which demands infinite versions of Indian food, and is unmoved by difference.

Years ago, my mother and I fell in love with Busybee's voice, its calm, even tone, and a smile which was always audible in the language. My father, meanwhile, is clipping his nails fastidiously, letting them fall on to an old, spread-out copy of the Times of India, till he sneezes explosively, as he customarily does, sending the crescent-shaped nail-clippings flying into the universe.

He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.

People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.

There is no other alternative, Huzoor. It is the mandate of Mother Chandi that a married woman only can become a Bhairabi, and three days after marriage, a Bhairabi cannot touch her husband anymore. So it has become a practice to arrange for a poor man from a distant place to marry a girl, before she is installed as a Bhairabi, and the man leaves after three days with enough money as reward. No one would see him ever again." Jibananda laughed. "What are you talking

There is no other alternative, Huzoor. It is the mandate of Mother Chandi that a married woman only can become a Bhairabi, and three days after marriage, a Bhairabi cannot touch her husband anymore. So it has become a practice to arrange for a poor man from a distant place to marry a girl, before she is installed as a Bhairabi, and the man leaves after three days with enough money as reward. No one would see him ever again." Jibananda laughed. "What are you talking about

One of the questions I hear most often regarding my plan to read the OED from cover to cover is "Why don't you just read it on the computer?" I usually respond as if the questions was "Why don't you just slump yourself on the couch and watch TV for the year?" which is not quite an appropriate reponse. It is not so much that I am anicomputer; I am resolutely and stubbornly pro-book.

The first recorded use to date of OMG is from 1917, and reads in full "I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)—Shower it on the Admiralty!" The citation comes from a letter by one John Arbuthnot Fisher, who happens to have been the admiral in charge of the British navy (a position known as first sea lord), and was written to Winston Churchill, staunch defender of both the English people and their language.