Quotes About Tradition

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

What is a shaman? The word was borrowed by anthropologists from the Tungus people of Siberia.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

turned smoking from a marginal indulgence of questionable morality to an unobjectionable mark of stalwart manhood.

There would be no work on this day. A day no pigs would die.

The Hòa Hào believes that the maintenance of our spirits is very simple, and the mystery of joy is simple, too. The four characters mean "A good scent from a strange mountain.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

It's nothing short of astonishing that a religious tradition with this relentless emphasis on salvation and one so hyperattuned to personal sin can simultaneously maintain such blindness to social sins swirling about it, such as slavery and race-based segregation and bigotry.

My dad played fiddle as well.

Source, law, method and aim constitute the "Tetragrammaton" of every living spiritual tradition.

When we take away from a man his traditional way of life, his customs, hi religion, we had better make certain to replace it with SOMETHING OF VALUE

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

Though, in the infancy of the Church, God taught his people without the written Word, yet now that the former ways of revealing his will to his people have ceased, the Holy Scripture, or written Word, is most necessary. Without this the Church would be left to the uncertainty of tradition and oral teaching; but the written Word is a sure test of doctrines, and a light in a dark place, both of which are most necessary.

I begin to see', he said to Virginia Woolf in 1934, 'that our generation -yours & mine… owed a great deal to our fathers' religion. And the young… who are brought up without it, will never get so much out of life. They're trivial: like dogs in their lusts. We had the best of both worlds. We destroyed Xty & yet had its benefits.

That Indian was stuck. From living in one place and eating the white man's food, he'd gotten weak. Flour, sugar, biscuits—none of that stuff can keep you going for long. You need meat in the winter, good fresh meat with plenty of fat on it. But there wasn't any meat around, at least not nearby. The white man had chased it away and the Indian, not being a hunter anymore, didn't have the strength to go any long distance for it.

In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family recipes.

Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.

It was the tradition to sacrifice to the Uenius publicus on 9 October, at the same time as to Fausta Felicitas and 'Victorious' Venus, two deities who had a vital and historic link with Rome.

In the sanctuary of Aesculapius, its site now occupied by the church of San Bartolomeo, opposite a hospital that is still faithful to the medical tradition of the island, people would come to sleep in order to receive the god's instructions in their dreams - a typically Greek procedure.

That is why each year, from 4 to 10 April, games were celebrated (Megalesia): theatrical shows in front of the temple and chariot races in the Circus Maximus on the last day.

Marriage was so sacred that it couid not be celebrated on just any day or month of the year. May was ruled out, because it was the month of the old (maiores): 'Who marries then has not long to live' (Ov., F, 5, 488); the 9, 11 and 13 were in any case devoted to the dead. This prohibition was still observed not long ago in Provence. Also ruled out were the first fortnight of March (season of war: Ov., F, 3, 395) and June (before the 'purification' of Vesta's temple).