Quotes About Tradition

When John Hetherington ventured out in public wearing the first top hat, it was considered so shocking that children screamed, women fainted, and a small boy broke his arm in the chaos.

True to a unique tradition of Rome, all the nearby walls had been slathered with that unique institution of the Latin race: graffiti. Daubed in paint of every color were slogans such as Death to the aristocrats! and The shade of Tribune Ateius calls out for blood! and May the curse of Ateius fall on Crassus and all his friends! All of this was scrawled wretchedly and spelled worse. Rome has an extremely high rate of literacy, mostly so that the citizens can practice this particular art form.

About seven hundred years ago, a pack of bandits arrived in central Italy, led by two brothers named Romulus and Remus. They despoiled the nearby peoples of land and women and set up their own little bandit state. At some point, Romulus established a fine old Roman tradition by murdering his brother. Had it been the other way around, I suppose we might now be living in a city named Reme.

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In the West, the past is very close. In many places, it still believes it's the present.

wheelwright, the person who makes a wooden wheel.

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

For fifteen years, I had been a presence—terrible or wonderful, but never boring—at Wimbledon, stirring conversation and controversy even when I didn't show up. In my own inimitable way, and without even willing it, I had become part of Wimbledon's tradition.

The main meat that our people like to eat is what they have been taught not to eat -- the cheap and filthily-raised hog. This is a divinely-prohibited flesh. This truth has been before our eyes ever since we have had permission from the white man to read the Bible. Nothing good is said about it in the Bible in Leviticus.

Another common way to define blues is as a tradition that employs a range of tonal and rhythmic practices originating in West Africa.

Zack, who has a penchant for arcane knowledge, informs Ava that a family of a boy followed by a girl is known as the king's choice. There is the son to carry on the family name, and the daughter to marry off and create a dynasty.

Jennifer's three cardinal tree-decorating rules: 1. When you think you have enough white lights, add three more strands. 2. Glass-ball ornaments are placed all the way inside the tree, near the trunk, so that the tree appears to glow from within. 3. Showpiece and heirloom ornaments go on the ends of the branches. In

What is the saddest day of the year? Labor Day or December 26th? One is given only a certain number of Christmases in one's life.

One hundred years ago you'd have a child surrounded by other women: your mother, her mother, sisters, cousins, sisters-in-law, mother-in-law. And you'd be a teenager, too young to have had any kind of life yourself. You'd share childcare with a raft of women. They'd help you, keep you company, show you how. Then you'd do the same. Not just people to share in the work of raising children, but people to share in the loving of children.

Yeah, but no one uses half-dollars," I pointed out. "Except great-grandpas, and then they have caramels stuck to them." -Alice

The old ideas don't satisfy the new generation any longer, while the old generations are unable to accept and assimilate the new ideas.

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.

What is needed is just the courage to face inconsistencies and to avoid running away from them just because "that's the way it was always done".

The French people are very democratical in their tendencies, but they must have a visible type of hero-worship, and they find it in the bearer of that name Napoleon. That name is the only tradition dear to them, and it is deeply dear. That a man bearing it, and appealing at the same time to the whole people upon democratical principles, should be answered from the heart of the people, should neither astonish, nor shame, nor enrage anybody.

I can all but hear my Haudenoseunee grandfather's wry comments as he stopped to pick up litter on the roadside.

Long tradition of ship's cats in the navy." "This is the air force, Captain." "I won't tell him if you won't.

The old ways-the old respect might no longer be enforced with terror, but enough of it lingered that Dust was no entirely bereft of hope for the future of Engine and the Conn family. They might have grown soft, but they had not entirely fallen apart.

It was a relief to speak his native tongue, familiar words and known patterns that had settled into his bones with father's milk and rooted deep.

There was, as far as Garrett understood, no actual reason why incantations were in Latin or Greek, Aramaic or Hebrew, other than tradition and mystique. But she found the discipline useful.