Quotes About Tradition

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

At this point, Mrs. Hardy brought the discussion to an end by setting before each boy a stack of steaming, golden-brown pancakes. Aunt Gertrude came in behind her with a block of yellow butter and a tall pitcher of maple syrup. "There are more cakes on the griddle," she said. "You need your strength.

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

Wine and bread. This has always seemed rather ghoulish to me, as though one were smearing the threshold with Puree of Christ. "Thank

En origen, un velatorio era un período en el que los dolientes se mantenían en velo junto a una persona muerta en su casa. Es muy probable que los velatorios empezaran a practicarse con la esperanza de que la persona amada volviera a la vida, o para tener la certeza absoluta de que estaba muerta antes del entierro.

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

Self-criticism has been much talked about recently, but few realize that it was first of all an African institution.

tradition has it that disputes which break out in a village are worked out in public. By this I mean collective self-criticism with a touch of humor because everyone is relaxed, because in the end we all want the same thing.

Ä°lkel ve soyutlanm?? kabileler bize stabil görünürler; çünkü rahat ve müdahale edilmeyen koÅŸullarda deÄŸiÅŸim oldukça yavaÅŸt?r.

BeÅŸerî geleneklere bakt???m?zda daimi evliliklerin, esasen iki bireyin aras?ndaki kal?c? cinsel aÅŸka dayanmad???n?, onun yerine iktisadî kayg?larla düzenlendiÄŸini görürüz. Resmî evlilik, mülkiyetin aktar?lmas?yla ilgili bir meseledir.

the majority of women in the Muslim world across the ages, who worked in the fields, did not cover their faces and do not do so to this day. Full veiling is an urban and largely modern institution.

Race prejudice has unfortunately become an American tradition which is uncritically handed down from one generation to the next," Einstein declared.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

The problem was how to attract him to me. What could I offer the one who had gently but firmly turned down the aristocrats and the Caviar? How could I conquer him, entrenched behind barriers of tradition, his natural pride and acquired arrogance?

Et depuis quand les évêques s'y connaissent-ils en femmes? —Très longue histoire. La nuit des temps —répondit l'évêque.

Chinese consider eating food to be one of the rare joys of living...

in traditional China the frequency of eating out was a fairly good indication of a person's rank in society.

I am sure the Americans can fix nothing without a drink. If you meet, you drink; if you part, you drink; if you make acquaintance, you drink…. They commence it early in life, and they continue it, until they drop into the grave.

A late Easter, a long cold spring.

The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations.

Like many my age, I have left for the mainland. Who is left to watch for the weather and to judge the tides, to buain the peats and gather the crotal, to walk up the high hill and run over the white sand? Here are the faces that know. They know that while I may perceive opportunity to lie further and further away, my heart and soul will always be that of a Hearach.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.