Quotes About Tradition

Once upon a time-which, when you come to think of it, is the only proper way to begin a story-the only way that really smacks of romance and fairyland-all the Harmony members of the Lesley clan assembled at Cloud of Spruce to celebrate Old Grandmother's birthday as usual. Also to name Lorraine's baby.

Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn't rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.

To hear Chip talk you'd think every Nebraskan male knows how to put a horseshoe on a mule. They know how to bring forth grain from dirt, or what a combine harvester is. They get what happens to that brought-forth grain, the steps before the Cheerios. The women knit long underwear and are adept at fruit canning.

FACT The Native Americans invented the game lacrosse.

I find attempts to create bilingual gospels laughable, in particular the attempt to translate the service from Church Slavonic into Russian. What for? In order not to make the effort and not to learn the divine, if somewhat artificial but solemn, language specially carved for this purpose? This language also provides a link with a tradition which is realized at depths and which the modern Russian language cannot plumb.

Todas as noivas têm quinze anos.

Arranjávamos um altar, Capitu e eu. Ela servia de sacristão, e alterávamos o ritual, no sentido de dividirmos a hóstia entre nós; a hóstia era sempre um doce. No tempo em que brincávamos assim, era muito comum ouvir à minha vizinha: Hoje há missa? Eu já sabia o que isto queria dizer, respondia afirmativamente, e ia pedir hóstia por outro nome.

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

And as long as there are even a few who belong to the Old Music, you are still our brothers and sisters.

Eve showed Aidan how to rake the range. "I think when we're married we might have something more modern," he grumbled. "No, surely with the eight children we can have them stoking it, going up the chimney even.

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Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

The culture of honor hypothesis says that it matters where you're from, not just in terms of where you grew up or where your parents grew up, but in terms of where your great-grandparents and great-great-great-grandparents grew up. That is a strange and powerful fact. It's just the beginning, though, because upon closer examination, cultural legacies turn out to be even stranger and more powerful than that.

Proficimus more irretenti: "We make progress unhindered by custom.

landowner of those parts. An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine—Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story stone houses with red-tile roofs. For centuries, the paesani of Roseto

For centuries, the paesani of Roseto worked in the marble quarries in the surrounding hills, or cultivated the fields in the terraced valley below, walking four and five miles down the mountain in the morning and then making the long journey

created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world. The Rosetans were

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives.

we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine. It's not

In transplanting the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania, the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world. The Rosetans were healthy because of where they

In transplanting the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania, the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world.

In Mexico, on his grandfather's farm, dogs were dogs and humans were humans: each knew its place. But in America, dogs were treated like children, and owners had shaken up the hierarchy of human and animal.

Bir aile bir diÄŸer aileyle sava??yorsa bu bir kan davas?d?r. Ayn? daÄŸ çevresinde konumlanm?? küçük kasabalar içerisinde pek çok aile birbiriyle sava??yorsa bu bir modeldir.

Most of the great universities of the West were founded with the conviction that theology is the queen of the disciplines. (...) Now, in the latter part of the twentieth century, that tradition has almost disappeared.