Quotes About Tradition

And from that time on the boys were no longer called Elder and Younger, but they were given school names by the old teacher, and this old man, after inquiring into the occupation of their father, erected two names for the sons; for the elder, Nung En, and for the second Nung Wen, and the first word of each name signified one whose wealth is from the earth.

When I return to that house it will be with my son in my arms. I shall have a red coat on him and red-flowered trousers and on his head a hat with a small gilded Buddha sewn on the front and on his feet tiger-faced shoes. And I will wear new shoes and a new coat of black sateen and I will go into the kitchen where I spent my days and I will go into the great hall where the Old One sits with her opium, and I will show myself and my son to all of them.

wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman

Had she not created even him? Perhaps for that he never forgave her, but hated her and fought her secretly, and dominated her and oppressed her and kept her locked in houses and her feet bound and her waist tied, and forbade her wages and skills and learning, and widowed her when he was dead, and burned her sometimes to ashes, pretending that it was her faithfulness that did it.

But I am fearful of it because I hear she is learned in the Four Books, and learning has never accompanied beauty in women.

In these days it never came to Wang the Tiger's mind that his son's dreams might not be his own and he lived for the spring.

The SOUL of a NATION is found in its PEOPLE.

after the ancient ondul fashion.

Yes, their ancients had taught them that no good man would be a soldier and that the warlike man was the least of men and not to be respected, and so they had all believed.

The Navajo teach their children that every morning when the sun comes up, it's a brand-new sun. It's born each morning, it lives for the duration of one day, and in the evening it passes on, never to return again.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

Classical ballet will never die.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.