Quotes About Tradition

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My father was very big on marriage.

The three great stumbling blocks in a girl's education… homard a l'Américaine, a boiled egg, and asparagus.

I want a big church wedding.

Él se había reventado de la risa y la abuela también se había reído, y luego había sacado tres nueces que tenía reservadas para las grandes ocasiones, y había dicho que siempre que se ríe es una gran ocasión. Había sido una buena idea porque después ya no había habido más nueces, de todas maneras la abuela nunca más se había vuelto a reír, y por lo tanto ya no había habido nada más para celebrar.

being large and rich helps a country win matches, but having a long soccer history helps a lot more.

You're the only man I know who makes the sign of the cross when confronted with broccoli.

The wearing of skullcaps in public was criminalised, as were other items defined as habitually Jewish. But Hasidic Jews responded by adopting the costume of the Polish-Russian merchant; the black fox-fur shtreimel hat worn over the yarmulka, the long belted black coat and white stockings that merchants wore in St Petersburg. This is what they still wear in Jerusalem and elsewhere, imagined as distinctively Jewish dress, which frozen over the generations it has duly become.

Sacrul are nevoie nu doar de spiritualitate ?i credin??, ci ?i de legitimitate ?i tradi?ie.

I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in everything I do, whether I want them to or not. Well, "guide" is too weak a word. "Dictate" is more like it.

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

Ser judía es más algo de tu corazón que de tu mente. Para algunos, ser judío es seguir estrictamente las leyes y las costumbres de nuestros antepasados. Para otros, es ser parte de una comunidad. La religión es muy personal. Siempre estaré allí para ti si quieres o lo necesitas. Puedes elegir adoptar el judaísmo o decidir que tu vida no lo necesita. Nadie puede imponer la religión en ti o ésta no será real.

And if we Negroes at the back of beyond honor our dead for nine days, it's so that the soul of the deceased should not be hurried in any way, so that it can detach itself gradually from its piece of earth, its chair, its favorite tree, and the faces of its friends, before going to contemplate the hidden side of the sun.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.

Old families last not three oaks.

With rich flames, and hired tears, they solemnized their obsequies.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses.