Quotes About Tradition

May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

You are what you leave behind.

The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banner of those who felt that the establishment had sacrificed that tradition, "stabbed it in the back." The battle flag became the banner not of a specific Lost Cause but of all of white supremacy's lost causes.

Parents will claim a Christian identity which their kids will slough off by young adulthood.

Most of us, even in this digital age, know what a grandfather clock is – but do you know how they got their name? They were once known as long-case clocks, but in 1876 American songwriter Henry Clay Work wrote the song that would give birth to the name that we know them by today: "My Grandfather's Clock".

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself.

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I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

In Greenland there is no ownership of land. What you own is your house, your dogs, your sleds and kayaks. Everyone is fed. It is a food-sharing society in which the whole population is kept in mind--the widows, elderly, infirm, and ill are always taken care of. Jens said, "We weren't born to buy and sell, but to be out on the ice with our families.

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

Most people in Iceland are either referred to as the son or daughter of their father. For example, a woman with a father named John is Johnsdaughter, or in Icelandic Jonsdottir. A man with a father named John is Johnsson, or Jonsson in Icelandic.

In an ideal world, both experifaith and storyfaith would provide spiritual aspirants of all faiths with guidance. Storyfaith would preserve tradition and teach morals through parables and examples. Experifaith would provide the blueprint for a personal path to follow. In the context of chocolate, storyfaith is a lecture about chocolate, including information about origins and fables about positive attributes, while experifaith is the literal act of tasting the chocolate.

For reasons unknown, the philosophical aspect of the yoga movement has had to make way for the yoga fit revolution; today's image of a yogi is a slender and scantily clad young female doing postures on the cover of a bestselling magazine, whereas the older image was of an Indian man with long beard sitting in a cave wearing a loin cloth.

Zapatos que les apretaban y les sacaban ampollas y que tu padre impedía que dejaran de calzar porque sin zapatos ningún indio podía llegar a ser alguien. Los ingenieros, los abogados, los maestros no calzaban huaraches.

Julián había apostado por el «cuente, no cante», como exigía Juan Rulfo a sus alumnos en el Centro Mexicano de Escritores

Asegurabas que los dirigentes indígenas podían gobernar con más eficiencia el país. Habían heredado sabiduría milenaria y dominaban los secretos más recónditos de la tierra donde habían crecido.

It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.

That was the use of knives for women: to cut food for the men who killed with their knives… who killed those women's husbands, their sons, and their daughters.

Modern India is a product of Hindu tradition, the religion of Islam, and Western civilization.

This explains why the characters in the Mahabharata and in other texts of the classical Indian tradition prefer to depend on reason rather than on blind faith. 56