Quotes About Tradition

Quienes nos precedieron nos entregaron un tesoro que tenemos la obligación de custodiar; pero no pasivamente, como si fuese una pieza arqueológica, sino con el esmero creativo con que cuidamos un árbol restallante de savia, para que nos brinde una sombra cada vez más frondosa

Y ahí el veterano se acordó de la charla sobre las milanesas. El culo y las milanesas, valores universales.

Más vale un jaleo probé y unos pimientos asaos que no tener un usía esaborío a su lao.

Pubs were one of the things Dougless liked best about England, as they were family oriented, but you could still have a drink.

Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend

In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée , the long term: that which survives the vicissitudes of changing governments, newfangled fashions or technological improvements, an ongoing inheritance that can both imprison and inspire.

our world is a product of the medieval past

We're talking tradition here, for heaven's sake. Not literary analysis. Do you consider "Good morning" to be a weather report?

Anyone who could remember the heyday of the cocktail party probably doesn't.

Lady" is not used before the lady's first name unless she is the daughter of a duke, marquess or earl; those who come by the title through marriage use it before the husband's name. Fortunately

So here I was. I would live with Joe and Mom. I had no place else to go. Joe would carve the roast on Sundays. He would put up the Christmas tree.

I know that some lesbians are getting pregnant by going to sperm banks. I couldn't do that. I'm exactly like my grandmother, "What? Everything's frozen! Nothing's fresh?"

It is pleasurable to press a door handle shining from the thousands of hands that have entered the door before us; the clean shimmer of ageless wear has turned into an image of welcome and hospitality. The door handle is the handshake of the building. The tactile sense connects us with time and tradition: through impressions of touch we shake the hands of countless generations.

A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

Das Leben war schwierig geworden, es gab nichts Großes, an das man glauben, keine Pflichten, die man erfüllen, keine Bräuche, an denen man sich freuen konnte, und was einst eine Familie gewesen war, bestand aus versprengten Einzelwesen, die man liebte oder verzweifelt bedauerte - es ließ sich kaum noch unterscheiden.

Muž nese vinu a žena bolest. Takhle to bylo odjakživa.

A tradition or societal custom of bowing to one another when meeting, or tipping the hat as gentlemen used to, can be changed. But it is not a morally problematic custom. Customs may come and go through time and the different cultures in a country, city, or state. Still, Christians are called by the Church to look beyond this and discern if whether it pushes the boundaries of Christian morality or is just a harmless custom.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.

As for the bitter herbs.... To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point — bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering...

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

I do love my family, but I really just go for the food.

You are a Bridgerton. I don't care who you marry or what your name becomes when you stand up before a priest and say your vows. You will always be a Bridgerton, and we behave with honor and honesty, not because it is expected of us, but because that is what we are." Eloise