Quotes About Tradition

Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

I absolutely love everything about Christmas music.

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

Blackstrap molasses has a long and storied tradition as a health food and a remedy for all sorts of ailments. One of the most popular legends

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.

We require routine and tradition. That's order. Order can become excessive, and that's not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown— and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.

you should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don't have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you).

Loss of group-centred belief renders life chaotic, miserable, intolerable; presence of group-centred belief makes conflict with other groups inevitable. In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaningless, and that is no improvement at all.

the careless demolition of tradition is the invitation to the (re)emergence of chaos. When ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge.

At the beginning of time, according to the great Western tradition, the Word of God transformed chaos into Being through the act of speech. It is axiomatic, within that tradition, that man and woman alike are made in the image of that God. We also transform chaos into Being, through speech. We transform the manifold possibilities of the future into the actualities of past and present. To tell the truth is to bring the most habitable reality into Being.

A functional social institution—a hierarchy devoted to producing something of value, beyond the mere insurance of its own survival—can utilize the conservative types to carefully implement processes of tried-and-true value, and the creative, liberal types to determine how what is old and out of date might be replaced by something new and more valuable.

la mayor consciencia de uno mismo y el consiguiente descubrimiento de nuestro carácter mortal, así como el conocimiento del bien y del mal, se presentan en los primeros capítulos del Génesis, junto a la amplia tradición que los rodea, como un cataclismo de magnitud cósmica.

Myths are the stories we tell ourselves about how we behave, when we don't know how it is we behave or even why.

Your mother's recipe for fish heads and rice, no matter how celebrated in her village of origin, doesn't cut it in these days of grapefruit foam and Scotch/tobacco ice-cream.

inside the restaurant young Strattonites carried on their time-honored tradition of acting like packs of untamed wolves.

Pelópidas's father, a collateral descendant, inherited only the name and the aristocratic habit of not working.

Assim é o mundo, povoado de céticos e negativistas, amarrados, como bois na canga, à ordem e à lei, aos procedimentos habituais, ao papel selado.

Isso de dar um pouquinho antes de casar sucede a três por dois e com gente muito boa, minha cara…

Vinham confessar o irremediável; ele tinha lhe tirado os tampos, comido o cabaço, necessitavam casar. Quisesse ou não dona Rozilda, com ou sem maioridade, tinham de casar, Flor deixara de ser moça donzela e só o matrimônio lhe restituiria a honra agora no bucho de Vadinho.

La sopa de tortilla, aromatizada con yerbas frescas de la huerta, el frito de plátanos, carne desmenuzada y roscas de harina de maiz, el excelente chocolate de la tierra, el queso de piedra, el pan de leche, y el agua servida en antiguos y grandes jarros de plata, no dejaron que desear.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

No ya vanguardia o tradición, sino compromiso, formal y temático, con una nueva sensibilidad temporal, con un uso creativo (y, en consecuencia, crítico) de las imágenes. O desaparición en la técnica, fundido en esa unidad técnico-comunicativa que constituyen los lenguajes hiperestetizados de la cultura de masas. Estamos asistiendo al necesario nacimiento de una nueva moral de la actividad artística o su disolución