Quotes About Tradition

Perdute le radici della propria cultura si cerca di rattoppare con le esistenze passate il grigiore e l'incertezza del presente.

Yes, it is." Bennett blew out his breath. "You can't expect me to…sit in the morning room and chat about the weather with her mother, and hold her yarn while she knits, and…wait five weeks before I attempt to hold her hand.

The Old Way: A Story of the First People

If America is a melting pot, New Orleans is where it comes to a boil.

My mother used to say that a son is a son until he gets married—then he's a husband—but a daughter is a daughter for life.

I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason.

The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms.

Evde de karn?m?z doymuyor deÄŸildi ama büyükannem, piÅŸirdiÄŸi ucuz et yemeklerinin daha ilk lokmas?n? aÄŸz?m?za götürürken, Umar?m beÄŸenirsiniz, ÅŸunun yar?m kilosuna tam k?rk bir sent verdim, deme al??kanl???na sahipti, ben de o zaman bir pazar günü rostosu yerine madeni paralar? yiyormuÅŸum duygusuna kap?l?rd?m.

They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disembowelled themselves when anything went wrong.

My favourite tree was the Weeping Scholar Tree. I thought it must come from Japan. They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disemboweled themselves when anything went wrong.

It's not that we hadn't enough to eat at home, it's just that my grandmother always cooked economy joints and economy meat loafs and had the habit of saying, the minute you lifted the first forkful to your mouth, 'I hope you enjoy that, it cost forty-one cents a pound,' which always made me feel I was somehow eating pennies instead of Sunday roast.

Avocados are my favorite fruit. Every Sunday my grandfather used to bring me an avocado pear hidden at the bottom of his briefcase under six soiled shirts and the Sunday comics. He taught me how to eat avocados by melting grape jelly and french dressing together in a saucepan and filling the cup of the pear with the garnet sauce. I felt homesick for that sauce. The crabmeat tasted bland in comparison.

Modern innovations in Benidorm have not disturbed the rhythm of native customs.

No poet, no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.

The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.

Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.

It [tradition] cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

Our second danger is to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return to some previous condition which we imagine as having been capable of preservation in perpetuity, instead of aiming to stimulate the life which produced that condition in its time. . . . a tradition without intelligence is not worth having . . .

Culture is not enough, even though nothing is enough without culture.

A poesia de um povo deriva sua vida da fala do povo e, por sua vez, dá-lhe uma vida; e representa o seu ponto mais elevado de consciência, o seu maior poder e a sua mais delicada sensibilidade.

Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus, perhaps because it was difficult & rare, was more on greeting people?

I say to you, daughter, reconsider your glorious resolve, for surely the role of a woman is to give birth, not to throw bombs.

strange days are upon us. Tradition served us, but now it shackles us.

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.