Quotes About Tradition

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

I choose Legacy over Lucre

Spirituality is conversation with God, everything else is just religious custom.

Without our ancestors we would not be.

Most people like normality because they feel safe and comfortable around it.

My mother had a kindness that embraced all life.She knew her place well and was comfortable in giving everything she had.This is the tradition of native women.

What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning,

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It's so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.

The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.