Quotes About Tradition

in rebel territory, the onslaught against "red" women was integrally linked to the reimposition of traditionalist forms of social order

I argue that although the term Shinto scarcely appears, we can identify Shinto's institutional origins in the late seventh- and early eighth-century coordination of Kami worship, regarded as embodying indigenous tradition, by a government ministry following legal mandates.

Each little flower has a history and cultural references, is a superstition or a cure for something.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Personal religious experience is not necessarily the same as organized religious doctrine. My concern is that as a contemporary women we have lost the capacity to make this distinction.

Beneath the tree an ancient wooden cider press pouring apple juice into cups. The crushed apples fall into mounds of oxidising pulp beside it and the man working the mechanism is shouting something to the craggy plantsman on the next stand with stripling trees for sale.

Knots were probably the earliest spells.

He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.

Harriet's mother, Margot, is no fan of gingerbread. She stood alone over her mixing bowl and stirred with the clenched fist of a pugilist.

Life has changed a lot, you know. You didn't used to get all this food inside food inside food when I was a girl. The other day I was eating a mushroom and found it had been stuffed with prawns. I've got so many misgivings over this crazy, Boy. It's flying in the face of nature. A mushroom is a woodland fungus and a prawn comes from the sea. People have got no business stuffing one inside the other.

They were merchant families, mostly, descendants of Englishmen who'd gotten rich trading with the tsars and sultans and rajahs of long ago, then come over to America because all their money didn't stop the aristocrats from snubbing them. Now their great-grandchildren just made a few investments here and there and kept charitable institutions the way an average Joe keeps a pet.

Life has changed a lot, you know. You didn't used to get all this food inside food inside food when I was a girl. The other day I was eating a mushroom and found it had been stuffed with prawns. I've got so many misgivings over this craze, Boy. It's flying in the face of nature. A mushroom is a woodland fungus and a prawn comes from the sea. People have got no business stuffing one inside the other.

My Papi loves salt so much he can eat it sprinkled over thinly sliced tomatoes; if he feels his blood pressure rushing he reaches for more salt in case it's his last.

What's good about belonging to a religious tradition is that it embeds us in a community, which sustains us in spiritual practice.

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued.

We are walking archives of ancestral wisdom.

They started bringing our babies out in those sheets and they laid them by my feet. They started making a line of them.

This is reflected in the fact that Ladakhis measure land according to how long it takes to plough it. The size of a plot is described as "one day," "two days," and so on.

Anachronism' implies something long dead, and nothing is dead here. History, as they say, is alive and living in London.

Vita had the same crooked smile I had, and that many of the women in my family had, what we called our Mona Lisa smile, a hesitant smirk that didn't give much away. You didn't get the full-on smile until we knew you better, and then we would bend over backward for you, cook you elaborate meals, and do anything you asked. Well, almost anything. Vita

He could inhale a dozen pierogi in less than sixty seconds.

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can't wait to exchange.