Quotes About Tradition

While continuing to worship the spirit of their grandfather Genghis Khan and making him into a virtual god, his heirs destroyed everything he created. Yet the more they destroyed, the more ritually important they made him.

called aral, "island," in Mongolian.

For the Mongols, the law was more a way of handling problems, creating unity, and preserving peace rather than just a tool for deciding guilt or administering punishment.

A valuable possession of a people is its first heroic epic.

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.

You have given us a part in a story the bards will sing to our children's children.

As William Ferris is fond of saying, "in Africa when an older person dies, a library burns.

Cook had made us a big veal-and-ham pie and a potato salad, with a fruit tart and the remains of the Christmas cake for dessert. The children got crumbs all over their clothes.

Dad bought us food from every single stall on the pier – lemon pancakes and doughnuts oozing jam and salty chips and fluffy candyfloss and 99 ice creams, just as he promised.

Milly-Molly-Mandy

There's only one thing left to do. St. Paul's on Old Year's Night. For Auld Lang Syne, my dears. For old time's sake.

She had told him that she loved him. He had known that, but hearing it in the traditional phrase had affected him in new and blinding ways. Ways that made him believe that he could do anything. Anything she needed or wanted him to do. Because her loving him meant so much more than him loving her.

I'm in favor or tradition. I'm respectful of and a lover of the tradition. There's no deconstruction without the memory of the tradition.

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism

Some of these islanders dutifully recited for us their ancient law: "Take no more from the sea in one day than there are people in your village. If you observe this rule, the bonito will run well again tomorrow.

this phrase was meaningless, for no matter where the Jew wandered, if he took with him the Talmud he was

club, where everyone looked to be over sixty, even those in their thirties, and he showed Bruce how to order dishes that were the mainstay of the menu: beef with Yorkshire pudding and trifle.

But the new priest in town, this Father Ybarra, who had come north to see if the missions should be closed down, absolutely forbade her to step foot inside Santa Teresa: "This place is not for women. If God had intended you to enter these precincts, he would have made women friars.

between Old Testament and New. The Christian discovers the spirit of God, and the reality is so blinding that you go right out, build a cathedral and kill a million people. The Jew avoids this intimacy and lives year after year in his ghetto, in a grubby little synagogue, working out the principles whereby men can live together.

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James A. Michener

It has been traditional for guys to think and to say, Many guys are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor. Now, but, there may be amongst an growing few a tendency to opposite this judgment, and to mention, One man is an oppressor due to the fact many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.

Storytelling has worked for 5000 years. It's not going to stop now just because we have blogs and tweets.

I'm going to have my baby and I'm going to bring him up to be a man. And I ain't going to read to him out of no Bibles and I ain't going to take him to hear no preaching. If he don't drink nothing but moonshine all his natural days he be a better man than his Daddy.