Quotes About Tradition

Much of what passes as Reformed among our churches is not.

The constitution has thus ended up not as Japan's ultimate governing legal document, but in the grand political Japanese tradition as a somewhat blurred and compromised token of legitimacy, hoisted about erratically like a portable shrine by competing contenders for power.

Did you know that Halloween started because long ago people believed that one day a year at the end of the fall harvest, the spirits would return to walk the earth? On that day, people wore masks so the spirits wouldn't recognize them.

11.13 Vedas specify four classes of people. They have been classified based on their profession rather than on their descent or caste.

A girl is supposed to be ecstatic on her wedding day. According to tradition, getting married is what we live for. Hope your wedding day is soon, they say. To young girls even, barely ten years old. May we all celebrate your wedding day. What did it feel like for her, though? She waits at her father's house, all dressed up in white. The men in her family all proud, happy, one less mouth to feed, one less honor to defend.

If the cow alone is to be held sacred from slaughter, and not the buffalo, then that is bigotry, not religion.

In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters, but not from its main outline.

the light of our home also was to depart to her husband's house, and leave her father's in the shadow.

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?" "The outside world may want you," he replied.

often she has crippled her children's minds and narrowed their lives in order to fit them into her social forms;

Don't quote the shastras to defend your way of honouring the female sex! That is not honour.

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.

I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened.

The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison.

Tea without sugar just wasn't done. Or at least not talked about in polite society. Like French kissing your first cousin.

Voting by mail has a long, venerable tradition in this country, most notably the election of 1864, when 150,000 Union soldiers sent in ballots that helped ensure President Abraham Lincoln's reelection, the preservation of the union and the abolition of slavery. Mailed votes leave a paper trail that renders them less, not more, susceptible to fraud.

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

Voting, for me, has always been a family affair.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.