Quotes About Tradition

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.

I really don't care for the proper chef coat.

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

My family is really proper.

Every Easter, at one household or another, I find a battle begins and the conversation of how to 'properly eat' a chocolate bunny.

My own kids are absolutely allowed to help me cook it. They of course have the added bonus of knowing how to bake. That wasn't really a concept when I was a kid - I learned it at school in home economics, then started properly when I was home with my children. They love helping me.

Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections.

I consider myself an ordinary Muslim who is constantly working to put himself in the framework established by the Koran and the tradition of the Prophet Mohammed. I study the works of experts of jurisprudence, Koranic commentary, hadith commentary, and Sufism.

Mormonism is a male religion, a dream of prophets and patriarchs.

When my dad proposed to my mom, instead of giving her an engagement ring, he gave her an engagement shotgun. Because he loved to hunt and wanted to spend time with her doing that.

Traditionally, in the Eastern World, man and nature are close: men find happiness and prosperity in the beauty of nature, even if the nature is actually built to match this very need.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.

Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of. The faith is too diffused.

I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My father is Protestant, and while he was spiritual, he wasn't much of a churchgoing person. I think it's fairly common for families to be brought up in the mother's religion.

My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time.

I came from a tradition of demonstrations and protests, and I really believe in them. I think they are powerful ways of bring people together, to organize, to raise awareness, and most importantly to empower people.

I am not accustomed to protocol.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

If you go to Udaipur, even the locals from the lower middle class have a certain air about them. They are very proud of their heritage and history.