Quotes About Tradition

It is no accident that, in every human culture known, there is language that distinguishes male from female. It's a human universal.

All right, then. Your name, young woman." "Calliope McCauley Michaelson." Daniel swung around and stared at her. Flannery began flipping the pages in his book. "Calliope?" Daniel whispered. She shrugged. "My father was very fond of the circus." He was smirking. She was about to get married, and the groom was smirking.

Broadening Horizons for Over a Century,

What kind of a man thinks it's appropriate to give his soon-to-be bride a lethal weapon for a wedding present?

Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.

This is not just primitive rural superstition; [juju] is practiced by all kinds of people, from illiterate herd boys to multi-dregreed university professors. If you don't understand the power of this belief, you will never truly grasp the rich albeit often incomprehensible spirituality of Africa.

The state's authority would come from one of three sources: tradition, bureaucracy, or charisma.

I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest.

you choose to believe what you want, and you choose to do what you do. First comes life, then comes law. You are still responsible. You cannot hide behind anything. Since when does religious tradition permit you to short-circuit any morally uncomfortable decision?

Mas apenas eleições não fazem uma democracia. Democracia quer dizer poder para o povo, mas poder quer dizer algo mais que apenas eleições. Em nossa tradição isso também significa controle através de críticas racionais.

But fair use in America simply means the right to hire a lawyer to defend your right to create... It costs too much, it delivers too slowly, and what it delivers often has little connection to the justice underlying the claim. The legal system may be tolerable for the very rich. For everyone else, it is an embarrassment to a tradition that prides itself on the rule of law. (p. 187)

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

the Feast of San Gennaro on Mulberry Street, one of the city's big ethnic festivals.

He knew what was going on in painting in this country in the Fifties and Sixties. Abstract Expressionism, Pop-Art, Minimal, Op-Art, Less-is-More, Flat, all the avant-garde idiocies. But Maitland paid no attention to it. He went his way. Traditional. Representational. If he painted a tit, it was a tit.

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.

The Africans wouldn't consider it a real visit unless they ate.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

Mong Kok is where old, traditional Hong Kong and the contemporary, future-leaning city collide like a speeding Lamborghini into a bus full of retirees on their way to a bingo parlor

A son is a son until he takes a wife; a daughter is a daughter all of your life.

It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.