Quotes About Tradition

Women out in the village don't talk back to their husbands. It's just a law, when men say something, women should just listen. And you should never talk in a loud voice because a man outside might hear. I made that mistake, but I was lucky. In Tarinkot, a man beat his wife with an ax, and she survived, but her head was split open. Husbands who only use their hands or feet are very kind." -Heela (Gopal's female civilian Afghan respondent)

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

neorealism runs counter to the traditional categories of spectacle—above all, as regards acting

En aquel remoto lugar de la profunda España las vidas tenían trayectorias rectilíneas que empezaban un día en la primera comunión y acababan otro, quince años después, en el matrimonio, sin salir de la misma iglesia y sin cambiar de cura.

Qu'en savez-vous? dit le docteur. Mais quoi qu'il en soit, le nombre des épouses varie simplement comme le mode d'alimentation de l'espèce. Les lapins, les Turcs, les moutons, les artistes, et d'une façon générale tous les herbivores sont polygames; les renards, les Anglais, les loups, les banquiers, et d'une façon générale tous les carnivores sont monogames.

You know, one used to give presents on New Year's Day. Christmas was for churchgoing and family gatherings. On New Year's one's friends came visiting and then presents were exchanged.

Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we know of has a tradition of storytelling. No doubt stories have touched your life, too, from bedtime stories you may have heard as a child to news stories you see on TV or read in a newspaper. We might even say that a major goal of living is to created the story of our own lives, a story we hope to take pleasure and pride in telling.

A well worn path is the most comfortable to follow." Andreas Simic

People, not just writers, are attracted to New Orleans because it's full of stories and listeners who love nothing better to do than to listen to them.

Still, there is something disappearing from the world, something composed of many instances of tradition and skill, or maybe not disappearing, but translating. Maybe culture, like physical matter, doesn't disappear, but is subject to infinite play, and th e world is a vast workshop for making and remaking everything, including people, and the engine of play is desire…

Karl May stylizes the Apaches—in crucial alliance with German immigrants like Old Shatterhand, Old Surehand, and (of course) Old Firehand ("head forest ranger by profession, forced to leave Germany for political reasons that caught many an honest man in their whirl"27 )—as a kind of bulwark of nobility against modern capitalism and Yankee individualism, which are subverting and undermining traditional German/Indian values.

Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.

The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity, Fact to Tradition, Ethics to Dogma.

TIP: In Japan, green tea is steeped for one to two minutes, while in China it is steeped for three to five minutes.

An alternative modernity worthy of the name would recover the mediating power of ethics and aesthetics. This would be accomplished not by a return to blind traditionalism but through the democratization of technically mediated institutions. Power

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

In one such book, provocatively titled "Bobbed Hair, Bossy Wives, and Women Preachers," Rice explained that God had commanded women never to cut their hair, that God intended women to be subordinate to their husbands, and that women should never pastor churches.[‡‡‡‡]

you'll have to forgive me, darling, I am old-fashioned, I believe in General Motors and the clarity of the gods . . .

One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.

One hundred years from now, our engineering may seem as archaic as the techniques used by medieval cathedral builders seem to today's civil engineers, while our craftsmanship will still be honored.

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

I spent a lot of time with extended family when I was young. Every weekend, Dad would buy half a sheep and Mum would cook for about 50 people, and we would all eat on the couch, in the kitchen, spilling out into the garden.