Quotes About Tradition

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

37 Tampoco echa nadie vino nuevo en cueros viejos: de otra suerte el vino nuevo hará reventar los cueros, y se derramará el vino, y se echarán a perder los cueros; 38 sino que el vino nuevo se debe echar en cueros nuevos, y así ambas cosas se conservan. 39 Del mismo modo, ninguno acostumbrado a beber vino añejo, quiere inmediatamente del nuevo, porque dice: Mejor es el añejo. 6

To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine," he said.

women, in some parts of France, were barred from the chai, or winery, during harvesttime. Their presence, according to superstition, would turn the wine sour.

After picking, grapes were crushed with bare feet. The must, or grape juice, was then poured into giant vats, followed by a process called pigeage, in which naked workers plunged themselves into the frothy liquid. Holding tightly to chains that had been fastened to overhead beams, the workers would then raise and lower themselves over and over again, stirring the must with their entire bodies so as to aerate the mixture and enhance the fermentation.

I love you as New Englanders love pie!

Mexico is a country where the temples of the new gods are built on the gravesites of the old.

If that's all that troubles you, here, take my veil, wrap it round your head and hold your tongue. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

he wanted to be best man. "That's old-school shit," Malone said. "That was our parents, our grandparents, it don't necessarily work that way anymore.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would run outside with forks.

Hispanics have a long tradition of defiance against authority. Come to that, the Irish and Italians and Jews also have a long tradition of defiance against authority. Thinking it over, everybody has a long tradition of defiance against authority. (Except the Germans, of course.)

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

Doc Colvin Swain was the seventh son of a seventh son, which Ozark tradition indicates as infallibly as the daily setting of the sun that he was destined to become a physician, even in spite of himself.

Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.

Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back.

Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It's become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, 'marvellous'.

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.