Quotes About Tradition

Hullo, Rose,' said Delia Brandon, 'you do look gorgeous. I wish I could have a wedding dress like that.' Rose said she thought white satin was a bit dispiriting, but Mummy would have it. 'And anyway,' she said with great simplicity, 'if there was a war or anything and John got killed or something, I could have it dyed black.

No, no quiero… Pero soy una princesa. Y una princesa no debe tener en cuenta sus sentimientos. Una princesa se entrega, rendida, en manos de su rey. Soy una buena princesa, con sangre de siglos en las venas para obedecer y sonreír. A pesar de todo, lo he aprendido: una princesa no le da calabazas al emperador de Austria. Aunque le cueste la vida.

César picks it up and pulls out a chicken by its neck. Welcome to America, he says. He hands it to me. I look into its glassed-over eyes. . . . I've held plenty of chickens before, plucked, chopped, and cooked them too. But here, I want to save the chicken from its fate.

Volgens de traditie,' vervolgde ze, 'biedt de Tovenaar, in ruil voor de zeven jaar en een dag van zijn leven die de Leerling de Tovenaar schenkt, de Leerling iets aan.' Marcia wendde zich tot Jongen 412... 'Wat zou je graag van me willen hebben?' vroeg Marcia. 'Vraag me alles wat je wilt. Ik zal mijn best doen het je te geven... Alles wat je maar wilt,' zei Marcia zacht. 'Absoluut alles wat je wilt.' Jongen 412 slikte. 'Ik wil graag weten wie ik ben,' zei hij zacht.

eggnog (BRITISH also egg flip) n. [mass noun] a drink consisting of rum, brandy, or other alcohol mixed with beaten egg, milk, and sugar.

But you mustn't be too sane, darlings. It really won't do in this family.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

We are told not to leave food on the table overnight: it draws the dead.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

I'm interested in any ingredient that has a history, that's been used by women, that works

Give me a business that's family-owned and operated anytime. And I'm talking about a local family, not one that lives in Arkansas.

That's why I liked the Presbyterian church; we believed in doing things decently and in order. When you went to church, you knew exactly what you were going to get. We didn't want to be surprised or entertained. And, Lord knows, we didn't want anything changed.

Masquerading in the attire of the opposite sex was a criminal offense, except on Halloween.

The ritual of tea, Willow thought, is like a liturgy itself, comforting because it's so familiar.

A reasonably new theme in the western world, Indian culture has known how to heal the body through food for thousands of years.

For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

I love westerns. It's guys being guys. There's no room for frilly stuff.