Quotes About Tradition

Somewhere in the Andes, they believe to this very day that the future is behind you. It comes up from behind your back, surprising and unforeseeable, while the past is always before your eyes, that which has already happened. When they talk about the past, the people of the Aymara tribe point in front of them. You walk forward facing the past and you turn back toward the future.

Your grandmother had an icon, your mother had a little portrait of Lenin, and you have your TV.

Le Streghe non conoscono le origini del loro culto.

Oh, Mother, don't be so old-fashioned,' Margo said impatiently. 'After all, you only die once.' This remark was as baffling as it was true, and successfully silenced Mother.

Es uz kapu vainagiem skatos ?oti nopietni, - Larijs aizr?d?ja. - Amerik? tos Ziemassv?tkos karina uz durv?m. Pie?emu, ka t?p?c, lai atg?din?tu - cik labi, ka v?l neesam zem tiem.

I'm making some scones,' said Mother, and sighs of satisfaction ran round the table, for Mother's scones, wearing cloaks of home-made strawberry jam, butter, and cream, were a delicacy all of us adored.

the bobbin of wool would rise and fall, twisting like a top, her fingers busy unravelling and plucking, and her drooping mouth with its hedge of broken and discoloured teeth wide open as she sang, loudly and harshly, but with great vigour. It was from Agathi that I learned some of the most beautiful and haunting of the peasant songs.

There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution, Jazz music, and Baseball. These are the 3 most beautiful things this culture's ever created.

No, it couldn't all be bad the way Stonebreaker insisted it was. There were people who hid the children from the sanctioned murderers; people who looked the horror in the eye and said, no, no, you can't do it any more, we're against you even if you kill us. Thus had Sweeney's friends acted, and they had redeemed belief and tradition for millions.

There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing them against one another and crafting lines of rich, humorous nonsense like this poem that has been around for so many hundreds of years that you just have to sit back and, with nothing else in mind, laugh out loud. 

Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In

Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realisation that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway.

Like father, like son.

A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime - it's not very scientific, but it helps.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will, it is reported, raise her skirt to cover her face.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother's cookbook, and her father's checkbook.

Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.