Quotes About Tradition

Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously...

Nishi's sister, who was sixteen years old, had gone for a holiday in Sylhet and returned six months later with a husband and a swelling belly. Nishi, strong on forward-planning skills, was taking evasive action: she was going on a holiday of her own and she would return when she was twenty-five. At that ancient age the danger of marriage was over.

Very suitable," said Yasmin, which in the Ghorami household was high praise indeed.

There is no forgiveness in ancestor worship, only retribution and eternal debt.

In all the darkest pages in the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of a vampire - a pariah even among demons

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before ...

It is traditional in America to criticize the schools; for more than a century, parents, self-styled experts, and educators themselves have attacked and indicted the educational system.

When the young Prince turned three, the court observed the ceremony of the donning of his first trousers.

On the first day of his holiday Laurence Manders woke to hear his grandmother's voice below. 'I'll have a large wholemeal. I've got my grandson stopping for a week, who's on the BBC. That's my daughter's boy, Lady Manders. He won't eat white bread, one of his fads.' Laurence shouted from the window, 'Grandmother, I adore white bread and I have no fads.

These things happen in threes,' said Milly in her way of uttering bits of folk-wisdom; she was spooning tea into the heated teapot. She always mixed tea with maxims.

Plus la mère a été brimée comme fille, sÅ"ur, épouse, plus elle élève son fils dans le culte de la virilité.

you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind.

In Beauvoir's writing, the emancipation of women, an emancipation that on her view can come to full flower only in the wake of a certain transformation in the human being, is linked with a certain transformation in the conventional understanding—both continental and analytic—about how to inherit the tradition of philosophy.

Those Southern girls can get very peculiar once they're sexually awakened.

I often think there is nothing quite so poignantly sad as old family groups.

Her life was expected to be as anonymous as the era's needlework.

The bestowing of chrysanthemums indicates familial attachment and, by implication, affection.

however, that most married women disappeared into the house every year

In our mass-produced world, we don't take enough care of the arts and crafts.

It's not seemly for a girl, my grandmother tried, but my grandfather snorted. Gold doesn't know the hand that holds it, he said, and frowned at me, but in a pleased way.

He'd also agreed to be betrothed to the Archduke of Varsha's daughter, a girl of nine who had evidently impressed him a great deal by being able to spit across a garden plot. I was a little dubious about this as a foundation for marriage, but I suppose it wasn't much worse than marrying her because her father might have stirred up rebellion, otherwise.

me. The tea was even offered exactly in the same way that Americans always did it, namely with the faint hint that they didn't really understand why I might like some tea, but they understood that this was the appropriate thing to do.

The Magnati have all been summoned for the funeral, and I'll be announcing our betrothal once they're gathered.

The tea was even offered exactly in the same way that Americans always did it, namely with the faint hint that they didn't really understand why I might like some tea, but they understood that this was the appropriate thing to do.