Quotes About Tradition

It is you who are old fashioned with your machine-guns and your gas and your talk of country.

Registration and cremation, they go together.

The old women gossiped as they always had done, squatting on the floor outside the urinoir, carrying Fate in the lines of their faces as others on the palm.

en Orient, on ne gronde pas les enfants.

He will not stoop to the mediaeval superstition of 'Good-bye'.

the Karens of Burma

There is even a tradition in the Bhagvata Purana that the greatest sages 'range over the world in the guise of mad persons' whilst imparting wisdom.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage and men. They are maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them to survive. MARINA WARNER

You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool.

Southern women don't show their pain to anybody. They aren't raised that way. But they feel it.

he committed such a heinous act, would have owned up to it and taken his punishment like a man, as the archaic phrase goes. That may be a quaint and sexist notion these days, but some of what is best about the South is archaic. The tragedy is that it should be so.

You ain't a southern gentleman till you dipped your pen in ink

Mom covers the wrought-iron patio table with newspaper, and Dad dumps the steaming crawfish

Her people would kill one beauty to make another.

What happened in World War II was a travesty," Parkinson says. "There was no precision weapon delivery. Bombs were delivered helter-skelter everywhere. They were as much an element of terror as an element of actually destroying things." The Air Force clung to this approach in Vietnam. "They were accustomed to the World War II tradition of carpet-bombing

Scarlett O'Hara was a steel magnolia, not a New Woman.

Japanese collector

The words and acts of the founding fathers, especially the first few presidents, shaped the form and tone of the civil religion as it has been maintained ever since. Though much is selectively derived from Christianity, this religion is clearly not itself Christianity. ROBERT BELLAH1

In a creation populated with free agents, God doesn't always get what he wants. Augustine and the church tradition that followed him were simply mistaken when they insisted that the will of the omnipotent is always undefeated. Because God desires a creation in which love is a reality, he allows his will to be defeated to some extent.

1. This view is not traditional. Opponents of the restoration view of creation often object that this view has few representatives in the church tradition. This is true, but two observations qualify its force as an objection. First, evangelicals, and Protestants in general, look to Scripture as their sole authority in matters of doctrine. Therefore, while the absence of precedent for a view should make us cautious, it cannot itself constitute a decisive objection. Second

First, evangelicals cannot appeal to church tradition to settle an issue. The affirmation of sola scriptura means that Scripture is the sole authority on matters of faith and practice. Christians should not easily set aside traditional perspectives, but they can and must do so if traditional views disagree with Scripture. Second

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat.

No, Lin! This is India. Nobody can take his clothes off, not even to wash his bodies. This is India. Nobody is ever naked in India. And especially, nobody is naked without clothes.