Quotes About Tradition

It's an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid," said Locke. "Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You'll find out

Singua solus." "What's that?" said Jenora. "It's an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid," said Locke. "Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You'll find out.

Given such an emphasis on the written Scriptures in the prophetic tradition, understanding the prophets as authors of books, rather than merely proclaimers of divine judgment and salvation in particular social settings, should be the central focus of the question of preaching from the prophets.

Q: What's the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish wake? A: One less drunk.

Women were born to serve and not to question the workings of gods or men. The blood and pain of women had always sustained the Earth, and would ever thus.

Everyone in our tribe had two names, the real one which was secret and was seldom used, and one which was common, for if people use your secret name it becomes worn out and loses its magic.

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

the learned holy men knew more of sacred things than this wild woman of the camps who wore her hair at shoulder length and fared forth dight in hose and doublet like a man

I shouldered a kind of manhoodstepping in to lift the coffinsof dead relations.

By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man.

Islanders too are for sculpting.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.

When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

During the holidays it's like cooking central time so keeping it safe is an important part.

My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents.