Quotes About Tradition

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

You look as if you're ready for bed. (to the Nigerian President, who was dressed in traditional robes)

I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth?

Bad wife stays either near or often in the house of her mother

Any man with two wives becomes a porter

Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.

Our proverbs are sacred and correct.

Proverbs are the people's wisdom.

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

My Saree makes my Smile Brighter.

Saree is my Superhero Outfit. There is something so special about Saree. Saree makes me feel empowered, stunningly dressed and beautiful.

We should live our life in such a way where we inspire younger generation to carry forward true essence of happiness, culture and nutrition in life. These three are the pillars of content life for humans.

Throughout the history of our civilisation, two traditions, two opposed tendencies, have been in conflict: the Roman tradition and the popular tradition, the imperial tradition and the federalist tradition, the authoritarian tradition and the libertarian tradition.

In olden times, when a king sent his vogt to a village, the peasants received him with flowers in one hand, and arms in the other, and asked him--which law he intended to apply: the one he found in the village, or the one he brought with him?

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Three millennia ago Soma was known to the Brahmans, who composed many hymns exalting it. The hymns to Soma are still being sung, yet no one, not even among the Brahmans, knows what it was.

The fact is, the great intellectuals of the western religious tradition from Augustine to Aquinas and Peter Abelard became philosophically dominant. The intellectual tradition was preserved. The great intellectuals of the Islamic tradition like Averroes and Avicenna became heretics whose influence disappeared under the weight of rote preaching and practice. Islam as a result has a moral code, a legalistic system of right and wrong, but no evolved ethical tradition.

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.