Quotes About Tradition

Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

Poppy: Um, can we cross running water? James: Sure. And we can walk into people's homes without being invited, and roll in garlic if we don't mind losing friends.

While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary for society, and instead advocate more co-operative, anti-hierarchical forms of social, political and economic organisation.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.

The character of a man's native country is as strongly impressed on his mind as its accent is on his tongue.

Patton hated and dreaded mediocrity. A few days before his death he wrote to Robert P. Patterson, who had succeeded Mr. Stimson as Secretary of War: "Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition." He

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

JAPAN AN ATTEMPT AT INTERPRETATION BY LAFCADIO HEARN

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

You see, in the Czech Republic, on December fifth, St. Nicholas goes around bringing candy and small gifts to children, accompanied by an angel and a devil. In a holiday tradition that is the stuff of nightmares, the devil threatens to scoop bad children into his sack and carry them to hell. (And you thought coal in your stocking was harsh?)

singing ballads whose words had never known paper but lived only on the rasping edge of their own voices.

In a holiday tradition that is the stuff of nightmares, the devil threatens to scoop bad children into his sack and carry them to hell. (And you thought coal in your stocking was harsh?)

Sementara aku diam-diam semakin yakin makanan Aceh yang benar-benar enak mungkin hanya didapatkan di rumah orang Aceh, bukan di rumah makan

Tamu tak pernah tak dijamu di rumah orang Aceh. Dan bukan sekedar makanan kecil, tapi makanan lengkap. Nasi dan lauk-pauk.

For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'.

Their grandchildren had reminded Will of the song about demon pox he had taught them- when they were much too young, Tessa had always thought- and that they had all memorized. They sang it all together and out of tune, scandalizing Sophie.

Well, there aren't any graves in mundane wedding ceremonies," said Tessa. "Though your ability to quote the Bible is impressive. Better than my aunt Harriet's." "Did you hear that, James? She just compared us to her aunt Harriet.

You know the stories of my grandfather, I am sure?" Jesse asked. Lucie raised an eyebrow. "The one who turned into a great worm because of demon pox, and was slain by my father and uncles?" "I feared your parents would not have considered it the kind of tale suitable for a young lady's ears," said Jesse. "I see that was an idle concern." "They tell it every Christmas," said Lucie smugly.

Well, I'm a Lovelace. My family quit Shadowhunting due to laziness in the 1700s.

I don't carol, said Simon. I'm Jewish. I only know the dreidel song.

Real cowboys don't line dance. We like to dance nice and close. Close enough to polish our belt buckles.

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.