Quotes About Tradition

Break the rules not because you don't know better, but because you know them too well

The limits are pushed by our resolve to succeed beyond tradition.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

My parents were very traditional Nigerians who wanted doctor, lawyer, teacher [children], but when I actually had a dream and I presented the dream to them, they were 100 percent supportive.

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

From the older ox the younger learns to plough.

Raising her voice, the woman said to the crowd, in archaic rustic Bengali: 'The time is here, pray that all goes well for our Laakhan, once again.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Raihana didn't know what to say to a man who was not her husband or relative. How could Kabir and Layla ask her to speak to this stranger? What did they want out of her? And then it struck her

She whirls around and around in her red English stockings and white moccasins, her cloak of wampum and feathers flying out around her like the wings of a great hawk.

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!

I take a few quick sips. This is really good. And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting. This is from Grand Auntie, my mother explains. She told me 'If I buy the cheap tea, then I am saying that my whole life has not been worth something better.' A few years ago she bought it for herself. One hundred dollars a pound. You're kidding. I take another sip. It tastes even better.

This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Beacuse sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.

So this is what my mother-in-law taught me: To protect my husband so he would protect me. To fear him and think this was respect.