Quotes About Tradition

The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

Flotaba en el agua cuando le pregunté: -Entonces, ese tatuaje de tu hombro, ¿Qué significa? -Todos los machos se hacen un tatuaje cuando están listos para declarársele a la chica que han elegido para ser su pareja. El tatuaje representa el nombre de ella escrito en la lengua antigua de nuestra especie. -¿Y a quien has elegido tú? Él me miro como preguntándome si de verdad era tan tonta. -¡Ah!

Watch Brandon run across the field," Bird said. He made a beeline for the pitcher's mound, did a little leap over it, and ran to the dugout. "He does that every time," Bird said. "Why?" "Says it brings him luck. He is so superstitious. He won't wash his game socks as long as the team is winning." "Ew! And he didn't want to work in a fertilizer plant?" "I know. Go figure.

P 271 There's a little songbird eaten whole, bones and everything, by French aristocrats. Illegal, and, by custom, enjoyed with a cloth over the face and head, like an executioners's hood. Maybe what we lack is tradition and elegance in our relentless destruction of nature

It's simply to point out that biblical holiness has no inherent connection to oldness, or tradition, or even particularly to rules. It's an identity, a fundamental self-concept, a core understanding of one's self and one's place in the world: I am not my own; I am set apart for God.

Have I mentioned before how much I love Christmas?" he murmured.

the rule of thumb' referred historically to the maximum width of the stick with which a man could beat his wife without breaking the law.

Nishan Sahib), which was raised at every gurdwara from the 1620s, when Guru Hargobind led the community.

Bedis, Sodhis, Trehans and Bhallas coming down from Guru Nanak, Guru Ram Das, Guru Angad and Guru Amar Das

Four hundred and fifty years earlier, the poet Kabir, whose profession as a spinner/weaver was in part emulated by Gandhi, had also spoken of Ram-Rahim.

Caste taboos had been broken, and a measure of equality introduced. But they had also become a distinct community, which for writing used a new script called

Lawrence dented a practice among some in the Bedi clan of killing baby girls. The justification for the practice was this. The clan that produced Guru Nanak would lose prestige if its girls married into inferior clans; if they married within the clan, it would be like incest. The only solution was to kill the girl-child.

India's passivity over time, and its dislike of clash, offends the Swami. Though admitting that Gandhi broke with that tradition—recognizing that Gandhi was neither passive nor afraid of a clash

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

At night these people put out food so the ghosts will have something to eat. They put out Vietnamese food for the ghosts of the dead Vietnamese soldiers. But many American GIs died, too, so they put out American food for the ghosts of the dead American soldiers.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

There are four varnas, with the former 'Untouchables' constituting a fifth (and lowest) strata. Into these varnas fit the 3,000 and more jatis, each challenging those, in the same region, that are ranked above it, and being in turn challenged by those below.