Quotes About Tradition

I fell to my knees, hugged Uncle Roman, and wept. July 1, 1941 The day after Uncle Roman's funeral, I went out to take Krasa to the pasture as usual, but a crowd of people stood in front of our church, hugging one another, laughing, and crying.

Amin, am pecetluit eu totul, ÅŸi mi-am f?cut cruce, atent, s? fie dup? ritualul ortodox, nu dup? acela catolic, care mi-e mai la îndemîn?, o f?ceam pentru ei, nu pentru Dumnezeu, cu El m? înÅ£eleg ÅŸi f?r? mîini.

Maud (like my mother) thought food did a lot more than just fill you up.

Given good yarn, good workmanship, and good care, a knitted shawl and outlive its knitter, providing warmth and pleasure to several generations of family and friends.

Did you know that the highest form of respect for the Navajo is to call someone Grandfather? In fact, that's how they address God.

People who go to the Opera, they don't go to the toilet, not even at home.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.

As far as my own orientation goes, in any case, I know that, according to our human experience and history, everything essential and of great magnitude has arisen only out of the fact that man had a home and was rooted in a tradition. Contemporary literature, for example, is largely destructive.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

The old guard in any society resents new methods, for old guards wear the decorations and medals won by waging battle in the accepted manner.

Sitting here, with wine and food and surrounded by friends as generations must have done before us in this very place, makes all the world's troubles seem very far away.

It's never the same, drinking with your father," said Yevgeny and poured himself another vodka. "It's like kissing your sister; your heart isn't in it.

we are the sum of all the dead that went before us. And

I wouldn't be worth my salt as a mother if I didn't pass on the family recipes.

His mother, in contrast, prayed in church.

God bless the aristocracy. May they never learn to do their own plumbing.

Nada hay nuevo bajo el sol... Cada acto o cada cosa tiene un precedente en el pasado.

It is a curious thing that in whaling vessels the Church of England Prayer book is always employed, though there is never a member of that Church among officers or crew. Our men are all Roman Catholics or Presbyterians, the former predominating. Since a ritual is used which is foreign to both, neither can complain that the other is preferred to them, and they listen with all attention and devotion, so that the system has something to recommend it.

She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

No nos hacemos geishas para tener una vida feliz; nos hacemos geishas porque no tenemos otra opción».

Remember, Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.