Quotes About Tradition

The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.

She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls at schools like Miss Porter's. If not, it had been passed down from one generation to another as carefully as the secret of fire.

In small towns, the social dynamic was like concrete; it set early and hard.

Madelaine: I guess it's up to you to carve the turkey. Angel: Come on, bro, show me how to carve up this bird. Francis: Start at the breast, Angel. God knows, you should know how to do that.

My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family. We plant, we tend, we harvest. I make wine from grape cuttings I brought here from Sicily, and the wine I make reminds me of my father. It binds us, one to another, as it has for generations. Now it will bind you to us.

For me, admitting that I won't decorate a tree for Christmas is giving up, and I've never been good at letting go.

Mom ladled the soap into wooden molds while Grandma kicked sand on the fire to extinguish it.

Grandma lighting candles and keeping them lit, whispering

for the definition of love she'd handed down to her daughter like a dark incantation.

The Age of Innocence.

must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

I thought about how I must look, wet, red-fingered from cold, cutting a hole in a perfectly good barn for no reason. "I don't want to tell you what to do," Shep began. This, I'd found, was a very common statement in the North Country. You're not considered rude if you don't return phone calls, or if you get drunk while working, or fail to show up as promised, but telling someone how to do something is bad form and requires a disclaimer.

Riding sidesaddle is not truly riding. It's ridiculous, is what it is.

Riding sidesaddle is not truly riding. It's ridiculous, is what it is. As if I couldn't properly sit a horse.

Quality Mom Time, Grandmas Recipe, and a Memory to Last is the title of the first book from the curiously curated creations children's book series.

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

That's why Occupy was so cool at first," Waverly says, "because it was actually different from what'd been done before. But most protests seem like cover versions of old songs. Like we're all in a sixties tribute band.

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead

SOUTHEASTERN OHIO USA

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

to pour out one's heart and not drink vodka at the same time, well, that is inconceivable for a Russian soul...

végsÅ' soron az egyszer? bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belsÅ' rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy ennek a hagyománynak sem az értelme, sem a tisztasága kétségbe nem vonható.