Quotes About Tradition

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

A pattern, by its very nature , should repeat. It is your nature as well, to do as your mother did. As much as you hate it, as much as it grieves you.

Riker tells Data to just get on with it already, so Data says Ferengi are like Yankee traders from 18th-century America. This indicates that, in the 24th century, the traditional practice of using 600-year-old comparisons is still in vogue, like when you're stuck in traffic on the freeway, and say, "Man, this is just like Vasco de Gama trying to go around the Cape of Good Hope!

Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.

I was to meet at various times men or boys called Chilaib (little dog), Bakur (sow) and Khanzir (pig), startling among Moslems, who regarded both dogs and pigs as unclean. Others had such strange names as Jaraizi (little rat), Wawai (jackal), Dhauba (hyena), Kausaj (shark), Afrit (Jinn) and even Barur (dung). In order to avert the evil eye unattractive names like these were often given to boys whose brothers had died in infancy.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Le but de l'éducation, dès son origine, est d'élever les enfants en vue du mariage et de la famille. (p. 134)

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

Zu viele Leute hielten ihre Gewohnheiten für Grundregeln der Welt.

Às vezes, penso que tudo isso faz parte de um caminho que hoje traço, mas que não foi inventado por mim. É um caminho seguro por ter sido pisado muitas vezes pelos pés descalços dos ancestrais. As marcas não são minhas, porém foram plantadas em mim.

Podem ir caçar, mas não se esqueçam de que nossa tradição nos lembra de abater apenas os seres da natureza suficientes para alimentar nosso corpo. Ninguém deve sacrificar um baripnia [parente] por esporte ou por prazer. Cada ser é nosso baripnia e devemos sempre respeitá-lo.

Os tupis – assim chamados por causa da língua – tinham uma tradição agrícola e se fixavam mais em regiões de solo fértil. Essa prática serviu como desculpa para a escravização desses indígenas, que foram submetidos a maus-tratos e desconsiderados em sua sabedoria ancestral. Já os povos nômades – e que, portanto, pouco sabiam sobre plantar – acabaram sendo perseguidos, maltratados, exterminados e desqualificados para o trabalho.

Um povo sem memória ancestral é um povo perdido no tempo e no espaço.

D. T. Suzuki, the eminent scholar of Zen Buddhism, one day made this sarcastic comment on the Christian tradition to his friends, American mythologist Joseph Campbell and psychoanalyst Carl Jung: "Nature against Man, Man against Nature; God against Man, Man against God; God against Nature, Nature against God; very funny religion!

We see that that ritual of reading every evening at the end of the bed when they were so little--set time, set gestures-- was like a prayer.

He was always on the lookout for the secret core of primitive ritual and magical belief hidden within the seemingly "rational" processes of modernity.

She believed that "British cuisine" was an oxymoron

She helped Shamron into his jacket and kissed his cheek. There was simple ritual in this act. How many times had he separated from his wife after hearing that Jews had been killed by a bomb? He had lost count long ago. He had resigned himself, late in life, that it would never end.

The men and women pray separately," the Saudi observed archly. "Much to the dismay of more liberal Jews." "Perhaps we can change that." "Shwaya, shwaya," said Gabriel.

weighty ashlars of the Western Wall.

Russian men don't always make the best fathers. Unfortunately, is is a cultural trait they pass on to their sons. - Elena Kharkov

It's hard to go old-school in the modern world. Gabriel Allon

The furniture came into the house when Mamaw and Granddad Bromont were alive, had been in use since Mom was a child, and the lumpy stuffing and worn fabric yet held the scent of Granddad's pipe tobacco and ten thousand dusty days.

in order to become a master of the unorthodox, you need to know the orthodox very well.