Quotes About Tradition

The idea of a New York Christmas

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

Will hated Christmas, for the obvious reason: people knocked on his door, singing the song he hated more than any song in the world and expected him to give them money.

Musicians had been assholes since the day the lute was invented

Taking your husband's name when you became his wife was one thing. Taking your town's name when you became its beauty queen was something else again.

Professional mourners may shed real tears.

Why do people always have to be named after dead people? If they had to be named after anything at all, why can't it be things, which have more permanence, like the sky or the sea, or even ideas...?

I took a drink, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand, repeating the gesture that was made a hundred times by my father and his father and his father's father, eyes half closed as the sharpness of the alcohol replaced the sharpness of grief.

Our ancestors pay the price for who we are

I mean, that the New World black woman needs a little of the Old World black woman in her, and the other way around. I don't think that they are completely fulfilled without the other.

I am filled with conviction that the interests of humanity would be best served if the United States remained true to its traditions and kept out of "entangling alliances.

En realidad, no. Nosotros pisamos la uva. Al pisarla se produce un vino más suave con el máximo sabor, porque el pie no rompe las pepitas y así no liberan su amargura. Mientras tengamos pies, los usaremos con nuestra uva, por caro que resulte. Nos obliga a contratar mano de obra extraordinaria y convocar a los amigos para pisar las uvas de nuestras dieciocho hectáreas —explicó Mendes. —Es más fácil y más barato hacerlo así.

En las comunidades judías siempre hay un extranjero. Y el año venidero el anfitrión será el huésped.

que la iglesia conservaba para usarlas sucesivamente en las casas

Rob dio al niño el nombre judío de Mirdin ben Jesse

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

The core of the anarchist tradition, as I understand it, is that power is always illegitimate, unless it proves itself to be legitimate. So the burden of proof is always on those who claim that some authoritarian hierarchic relation is legitimate. If they can't prove it, then it should be dismantled.

The historical roots of these differences between Europe and the United States are familiar. Centuries of conflict imposed a nation-state system in Europe, and the experience of World War II convinced Europeans that they must abandon their traditional sport of slaughtering one another

My parents had drinks and there were crudités for us- although they were not called crudités at the time, they were called carrots and celery.

There are countless places absolutely amazing in Ireland, because it respects its history—its long and layered history—and those who came before, what they did, how they lived and died. That's why you can feel them here, if you let yourself, and other places in the world are voids because in those places everything's about what's next, and nobody much cares about what was.

People too often knock down the old for the new instead of understanding that legacy.

Everything seemed paused for change, but was she? Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. And, she admitted, she prized routine, tradition, even repetition.

They had their feast, a happy family group, roasted wild pheasant seasoned with tarragon, stuffed with oranges, apples, shallots, and sage, cooked on a bed of carrots and potatoes, tomatoes. Peas and good brown bread from the oven, farm butter. Good friends, old friends

The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some believed, as legends brought comfort.