Quotes About Tradition

Don't let May 1 catch you by surprise! With your children, make paper cones from scrapbook paper and attach a ribbon so that they can be hung on a doorknob. Fill them with silk or paper flowers and a holy card. Now you have May baskets, ready to herald the month of Our Lady!

Cider House Rules

Sam crossed to the other set of stairs and moved up them quickly. As it wasn't proper for men to see women walking up the stairs, where they might accidentally catch the view of her ankle or, heaven forbid, her calf, many of Charleston's older homes were built with two sets of stairs.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.

Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

Et c'est quoi la différence entre art et culture? L'art n'arrive que si on met sa culture en danger

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Traditionally economics has ignored politics, but understanding politics is crucial for explaining world inequality.

as a Buddhist he insists that sharing one's tradition with another "does not mean wanting others to abandon their own spiritual roots and embrace your faith. . . .We must help them return to their tradition," whether it be Christian, Jewish, etc. (Nhat Hanh, 1995, p. 196). Thich

Tenth is the cultural desire to acknowledge religious diversity in such a way that peace can be maintained and the question of whether one religious tradition has more to offer than another is ignored.

This oral tradition took the form of doctrinal summaries, hymns, and sacraments that underscored the fundamental theology of the church

One factor is skepticism about institutional religion of all sorts

My son was circumcised by his father. Who's not a doctor, just cheap.

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.

Voilet had told me about wives. In cultures where marriage was practiced, he had said, a woman was allowed to choose the man who would own her, or at least she might protest if she did not approve of her father's choice. Usually but not always, a man was limited to owning one wife and therefore might display jealousy.

No reason. Because it's always been done that way. That's the standard explanation for anything.

Theocratic societies governed by priestly castes are usually static and monopolize thought. They insist on orthodox explanations and actively discourage independent and unconventional ideas. Today's beliefs must always be like yesterday's.

The character of the older flats battling against the utilitarian nature of the contemporary ones.

If you want to learn about patriarchal families, you don't ask the father, you ask the mother; then maybe you will learn something.

Few inhabitants of the subcontinent have ever been monoglot; citizens of India have traditionally spoken three, four, or five tongues.1

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.