Quotes About Tradition

I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive.

In the case of 'Disobedience,' the very secretive way of life and religion and tradition that the North London Orthodox Jewish community has was a huge invitation to explore an unknown world. And also a possible trap, and I tried to overcome that by portraying it, hopefully, with great nuance and detail and texture.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.

Unless we break from sectionalism and sticking to precedents, there will be no revival of Japan.

I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.

On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays-fear.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Only Spartan women give birth to real men.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

Golf's really fun in Japan because of the women caddies. ... I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie. By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome.

All men must marry much younger women

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman.

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.