Quotes About Tradition

And if your neighborhood still suffers under the tyranny of Taco Bell and combo plates? Fear not -- Mexican food is coming to wow you, to save you from a bland life, as it did for your parents and grandparents and great-grandparents. Again. Like last time -- and the time before that.

In Mexico, we usually go by three names—first name, father's surname, and mother's surname. We shorten that to first and last name in los Estados Unidos.

These weren't the tamales of my youth—they were smaller, but that was okay.

Why is it that when you invite Mexicans to a party, they feel compelled to bring along thirty of their relatives? NOT ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE Dear Gabacho: Mexicans and parties—was there ever a coupling more spectacularly grotesque? We drink mucho, we eat mucho, we fight mucho, we love mucho, we mucho mucho.

Across the street, Mitla Cafe's mascot stares directly at the former Bell's Burgers, stares with a smile, just next to the slogan "Real Mexican Food." Mitla might not have the riches, might never have capitalized on its tacos, but it gets the last laugh. The Taco Bell taco is dead. Long live the taco.

Poverty means death," Gustavo writes. This death, however, is not only physical but mental and cultural as well. It refers to the destruction of individual persons, peoples, cultures, and traditions.

The idea of paying Value Added Tax on a bride seemed to take the ring-a-ding out of it somehow.

All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

A Jesuit and a Franciscan are walking through a garden, silently engaged in prayer, when the Jesuit pulls out and lights up a big cigar. The Franciscan whispers, "My spiritual director says one should not smoke while one prays." The Jesuit replies, "Mine said it's all right if I pray while I smoke.")

Exploring the dynamic between tradition and change when it came to the role of women as powerful and influential figures is an essential part of understanding the evolving nature of the Roman world. This is complicated by the fact that the Romans to a large extent did not themselves necessarily recognize how the political and social role of women was changing.

There are four tongues worthy of the world's use," says the Talmud: "Greek for song, Latin for war, Syriac for lamentation, and Hebrew for ordinary speech.

ultimately, what common sense finds natural is what it is familiar with.

within two to three generations at least half the world's six thousand or so languages will have disappeared,

word that is not actively used by one generation will not be heard by the next generation and will then be lost forever.

Her mother used to call her erimitsu, "clever one" in their own dialect... Kasia had a reputation already that made her almost unmarriageable at home. Too clever by half, and too thin by more than that in a tribe where women were valued for full hips and soft figures -- promise of comfort in the long cold and children easily birthed.

I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.

I love the old, but I'm intrigued by the new. And sometimes excited by it, too.

He was a celebrity, in the tradition of Lord Byron and Beau Brummell, but more Brummell than Byron, more style than substance. "Evidently I am 'somebody,'" he noted at the time, "but what have I done? I've been 'noticed.' That is something, I suppose. And I have published one book of poems. That doesn't amount to much.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

La tensión establecida desde entonces, entre una cúpula republicana ilustrada, antimonárquica, y una sociedad tradicionalista, de vena monárquica y costumbres feudales, es una de las más duraderas de la historia de México.

Las leyes están escritas en arena, las costumbres en granito PLATÓN

Tenemos entonces un discurso oficial de larga sombra: una tradición revolucionaria, un presente progresista, un futuro de revolución permanente.

Se es mexicano, entre otras cosas, porque se comparte la veneración de esas violencias y esos martirologios.

On Aditya, such would be unthinkable; on Aditya, everybody respects authority. Whether it's respectable or not.