Quotes About Tradition

In Harvest-time, harvest folk servants and all, Should make all together good cheer in the hall, And fill the black bowl Of blyth to their song, And let them be merry, all harvest-time long. THOMAS TUSSER Elizabethan farmer-poet

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

There's a lot of common sense in some superstitions, George.

The shengren is the single most important concept in Chinese history.

Until she went with him to India the first time after they were married. Then it all made sense, and she realized that the hospitality he displayed to all guests was larger than he was - it was cultural, hereditary, something coded into his DNA.

The Lakota unburdened themselves of hair, of fingers, cut into their flesh to temporarily escape the grief of a loved one's death. I saw this on A Man Called Horse and in Dances with Wolves. But as far as I knew, no one in my immediate family had ever done this. My mother was worth far more than a hank of hair. She was worth my spine. My eyes. My womb.

Gasparilla is Tampa's annual heritage festival, and Tampa's heritage appears to be about alcohol.

You never stop being Catholic. It's like the Mafia or Amway.

Remember Advent calendars?" "Can't place it." "That means you weren't Catholic," said Serge. "We'd get these cool cardboard calendars that marked off the days to Christmas, and each day you'd open a little perforated window and get a piece of chocolate. There was a lot of bribery in the Catholic Church.

Whether they come from Brooks Brothers or a thrift store, the sweaters we wear have a magnificent ancestry. Their history spans the worlds of Irish fishermen, French knights, World War I soldiers, busty Hollywood 'sweater girls,' and the television saint Mr. Rogers. That history lives in each garment. By being aware of it, we can better appreciate what we have.

There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers and doctors. They wanted us out of the religious thing, apart from that ethnic bonding.

I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.

There's no question that I am biased toward the Hebrew calendar over the Gregorian one.

I always celebrated my birthdays with my parents. There is no question of not being with them on that day.

As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it.

It's no secret that I wear a kippa.

My music would make no sense without flamenco.

I'm a fighter. We come from the beginning, no gloves, no rules, no time limits.

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.

Christmas in the Ramsay house is always a noisy chaotic time, but I love it!

Like, in Asian culture, you have to be down with the family. You have to be down with all the crazy traditional or non-traditional things we do.