Quotes About Tradition

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.

The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.