Quotes About Tradition

Camhanach, it is a bargain as old as the world itself." He chuckled. "Women want protection...men want a willing lass to warm their bed.

Polly had always marveled . . . that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose . . . gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them.

When Constance was born, Aunt Glo named her after the dormitory she lived in at college: Constance Hall.

The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.

During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine, Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old together.

She understood the charges of profligacy and shallowness pelted at the Upper Ten Thousand, at those whose entire lives revolved around endless arrays of entertainment. But she also knew that for those on the inside, it was the only way they had been taught to live. Few, in the end, ever truly defied the way they were taught to live.

Chinese restaurants were the only restaurants we went to when we "ate out.

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

Japanese tea ceremony

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

The point of cleaning for Pesach is to remember that we are leaving Egypt, leaving the things that constrict us spiritually.

The law cannot do the major part of the job of winning equality for women. Women must do it themselves. Against them is arrayed the weight of centuries of tradition, from St. Paul's "Let women learn in silence" down to the American adage "A woman's place is in the home." Women have been persuaded of their own inferiority.

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

For Baby, the marriage was a bad one, but it never entered her head that she might complain or refuse to marry Ram. . . . Fortunately, in her eyes what others might have considered an injustice, she considered a law of life.

As I got older, I began to appreciate eating with my hands, which allowed me to savor the warm food through pliant fingers rather than a cold, hard fork or spoon. In fact, Indians believe that hands add flavor to food.

Indians of my parents' and grandparents' generation never sipped—they thought it unsanitary to be spreading germs by sipping cups, even if the dishes were washed afterward. Instead they used tumblers with rims to pour coffee, tea, water, or rasam down their throat

Sometimes, predictability and tradition please expectant guests rather than erratic invention and experiments that could fail. ALL INDIAN WEDDINGS HAVE several things in common: noise, food, music, and color. This is why Indians who live in America or any other part of the world go back home to get married. It would be hard to duplicate the color and happy chaos that surrounds an Indian wedding anywhere else in the world.

Indians expect to be force-fed when they visit other homes, and they relish the attention. In fact, Indians of my grandmother's generation think it rude and walk away in a huff if the host doesn't entreat them to eat, eat, and eat some more.

The elderly in China play mah-jong. American senior citizens go on cruises and play golf. Europeans visit museums, tour wineries and dine at Michelin-star restaurants. Indian elders visit temples.

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

I never turn down a drink. Among friend's it's always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say but brandy is still brandy. You'll find that in the Talmud too.