Quotes About Tradition

No matter how beautiful and fragrant the rose stays, it naturally blooms between the thorns, which no one embraces the thorny rose. Similarly, no matter how lovely can be a family head, but its old trend principles and self-restricted thoughts certainly cause a bitter, even poisonous atmosphere.

The pen still stays a traditional writing power; however, the pen work has disappeared since the Clickdom as a Kingdom has overcome that.

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.

Tidak pantas bagi seorang samurai untuk memetik bunga di pinggir jalan ketika sedang berangkat ke medan perang (Read: Sekolah yang benar dulu lah, gak usah pacaran segala).

He did not want his son to be all for present success, as the American, or to be all for tradition, as is the Englishman, but he thought the two might find a happy meeting place in a mind not yet well formed.

Everyone who was in the Delacroix house on Christmas morning got a stocking. That was one of the rules.

Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.

Enlighten your life with history.

anthropologists speak of ritual leadership and ritual space.

Angela has a boyfriend. Actually, he's a friend with benefits." "What's that?" Grandma said. "It means she likes him, and she sleeps with him sometimes when she feels like it." "In my day, we called that a husband," Grandma said.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

garum was invented by the Greeks, according to Pliny,

Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time.

Over time, these writings of the early church fathers and the decrees of popes and church councils became accepted truth in the same way the Bible was.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

After dinner the doors of the apartment were thrown open and everyone, whether invited or not, could partake of the "sweet table": slices of cheesecake, bundt cake, strudel, rugelach, strawberry shortcake prepared with sponge cake, honey cake, macaroons, chocolate cake, Linzer torte, nut cookies, lemon cookies, sugar cookies, hamantaschen, prune Danish and cinnamon twists- mountains of everything.

On Sundays when Bubby cooked dairy, she would sometimes have a request for scrambled eggs. She beat them with her indispensable broken fork until bubbles formed on top, then added a dash of sweet cream and several chunks of cream cheese. She cooked the eggs over a low flame, stirring constantly. The result was a mountain of fluff, creamy, smooth and delectable enough to tempt us.

Her reputation as a cook spread without her knowledge- for the soups she brought to the bakery in a lidded tin for her midday meal, for her stews, for the scraps of dough that she turned into what the Russians called pelmeni and the Jews kreplach, dumplings stuffed with chopped meat and onions. She prepared hot borscht with beef in winter, shchi or cold borscht in summer, chicken cooked with prunes or a tsimmes with sweet potatoes, carrots and prunes.

The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.

How many things pass through time randomly detached from the bodies and voices of persons. My mother knew the art of making clothes last forever.

The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other, without procedures, without tradition.

E' un dispiacere la solitudine femminile delle teste, mi dicevo, è uno sciupio questo tagliarsi via l'una dall'altra, senza protocolli, senza tradizione.

Ma verso Stefano, adesso, non manifestava nessuna esplicita aggressività. Certo, la spiegazione era semplice: avevamo visto i nostri padri picchiare le nostre madri fin dall'infanzia. Eravamo cresciute pensando che un estraneo non ci doveva nemmeno sfiorare, ma che il genitore, il fidanzato e il marito potevano prenderci a schiaffi quando volevano, per amore, per educarci, per rieducarci.