Quotes About Tradition

Becoming one with his physical environment was as natural a part of an Indian child's education as learning to read and write was to an American boy back east.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

Why is it that with birthday cakes you can blow on them and spit on them and everyone rushes to get a piece?

In retrospect, it was only a matter of time before the Family Dinner passed into history and fast foods took over. I knew its days were numbered the day our youngest propped my mouth open with a fork and yelled into it, "I want a cheeseburger and two fries and get it right this time." I just didn't serve meals with show business pizzazz.

A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

I figured out long ago that guilt was like mothers. Everyone in the world had at least one. And it was passed down like a torch to the next generation.

But Tad was touchingly tenderhearted. When Jack, the turkey being fattened for Christmas, became his pet, Tad's distress was so great that his father granted the bird a pardon–a custom that continues today.

Most have neither done a practice nor had a conscious longing for awakening.2 Many spiritual teachers speculate that this is happening because we live in desperate times and need an influx of aware, creative, compassionate people who will actively serve others and contribute fresh ideas. This is a radical change from the traditional spiritual path of withdrawing from society and from the 1960s movements when young people felt a need to drop out of the mainstream to seek social alternatives.

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

I don't know if it's because they're protective of their daughters or not, but all the men eat together, boss and employees included, and the women eat whatever is left. I don't like it; I think a family should eat together.

Ang Bui also told me that Thais cremate their dead instead of burying them. They believe that a man's spirit cannot be released and reborn unless the body is cremated. What do you think of that? I think it is more reasonable to respect other people's beliefs than to argue on behalf of one's own, which in any event can have no good result.

Marriage is an important step in a man's life, but I confess I don't understand why we have to spend'so much money in celebrating the perpetuation of our race. Ceremonies are only a show of wealth, at best a gesture of good will toward our friends, and I think perhaps it all goes too far. I wonder if you agree with me

A long time ago, daughter, we Chinese married strangers, because most of the people who lived near us were of the same sae. By the time a bride could visit her parents, perhaps two weeks had passed. And sometimes it was such a distance that the 'bride' arrived with one fat baby clingingtoher skirts and another in her arms. But it remains our tradition to honor a married daughter on her first visit home, even when her journey is from the shop next door.

I have never put a piece of ice into my mouth, or taken an iced drink. Cold liquid rushing down into a man's stomach is unnatural, as anyone with common sense must agree, and 1 have observed that old people who take iced drinks become stiff and move painfully. Thailand is very hot, and cold drinks only increase the heat within our bodies. I decided long ago to drink only hot tea, which cools the blood.

But why bother?" asked Weng Kim. "That is exactly the point, Weng Kim. We are Chinese, and Chinese people do bother. Thais were still eating rice with their fingers fifty years ago, and now they use whatever the foreigners use. We have used chopsticks since ancient times; they worked better for the purpose intended than fingers did then, and better than forks and spoons do now.

I read in a magazine the other day that Hindu Indians do not mourn their dead; instead they rejoice, believing that the loved one has gone to a better place. I cannot imagine that, myself, for how can the heart not ache with the sorrow of that terrible finality? Do these people have no feelings?

En las relaciones entre los sexos y en las bodas era donde más se ponía de manifiesto la conciencia de la jerarquía social.