Quotes About Tradition

None of the women in the women were eating in the daytime, unless they were pregnant or working, because they were observing the Muslim fast.

While many things have changed, some things haven't changed enough.

I was raised a Roman Catholic, but it was the kind of domesticated Catholicism that focused mostly on the length of your skirt rather than, say, the depth of your penitential observance

As the initiator of a learned tradition of discourse on Renaissance art, Vasari's vocabulary is in some respects limited. For example, he employs the adjective 'beautiful' over and over again, much to the despair of all his translators.

Plain boiled food, plain boiled thinking. Even his name is plain boiled: John. Maybe because I grew up with black bean sauce and hoisin sauce and garlic sauce, I always feel something is missing when my son-in-law talk.

What's more, he was going to have a full American breakfast with bacon and eggs, none of this continental bullshit.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

The Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect.

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

Once a week, beginning at sunset on Friday and until sunset on Saturday, the family had to pause. A Jewish merchant had explained the Sabbath to Agios already, back in Egypt. No devout Hebrew could work or travel on that day. If they were near a temple, the family went there. If no temple was available, they prayed where they were. When

In Native spiritualities, there is often a belief that we cannot pray unless we've laughed.

I began to sense that a big part of our problem is simple ignorance of what the oldest cultures have to teach.

It was the 1950s, and I confused growing up with settling down.

In Indian Country," he says, "we have a different sense of time. I'm learning and you're learning—and more will.

In short, these rebels punished their families, but only in the traditionally feminine way: they punished themselves.

Na Terytorium India?skim panuje przekonanie, ?e trzeba czterech pokole?, aby uleczy? jeden akt przemocy.

The Sacred Hoop

Don 't put mediocrity, insensitivity and tradition before sound reason and compassion.

In Israel, we read from right to left. [To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third']

It is always best when discussing serious matters to do so around a teapot.

Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.

For China, yesterday poisons today and robs tomorrow.

I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.

Wine upon beer is very good cheer; beer upon wine consider with fear.