Quotes About Tradition

He who emphasizes the ritual of faith can lose the point of faith.

Ama diÄŸer yandan, "herkes kendi al???k olmad??? ÅŸeye barbarl?k der". Oysa ne kadar acayip, sars?c?, hatta baÅŸkald?rt?c? görünürse görünsün, baÄŸlam?na yerleÅŸtirilirse, iyi yönlendirilen bir akl?n aç?klayamayaca?? inanç ya da örf ve âdet yoktur.

BaÅŸka kültürlerden âdet alma bir olgudur; ama al?nan, sebeplerin tamam?n? beraberinde getirmez. Ä°thal edilen al??kanl?k özümsenmez, daha ziyade katalizör rolü oynar; yani sadece varl???yla, ikinci ortamda olas? hâlde zaten mevcut olan benzer bir al??kanl???n tezahürüne yol açar.

Yo sé bastante de mecánica, pero él no sabe que sé, porque ocuparse de los autos es una tarea de los hombres, y como decía mi mamá, el día que cambiás un cuerito, sonaste, porque ya creen que sos plomera diplomada y no agarran un destornillador ni que se esté inundando la casa.

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring—not even a mouse;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

There are certain segments of society that will never lend an ear to a new idea. They squat in a certain place and will not budge from it. They will find many reasons to maintain a way of life that is comfortable to them. They'll cling to old religions; they'll fasten with the grip of death on ethics that were dead, without their knowing it, centuries before; they will embrace a logic that can be blown over with a breath, still claiming it is sacrosanct.

The one thing the English can't stand is someone getting above themselves.

The only thing the English have left is their past.

It is stereotypically English to accept that we are born with a fixed 'station' in life. It's what keeps the poor downtrodden.

Learn how to bow. It is an old gesture of respect, honor and pride.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

We are all citizens of history.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

Nobody, and I mean Nobody... puts ketchup on a hot dog.

The more nobly behaved the family, the less chance it stood.

It isn't the man who wants to who continues the tradition, it's the man who can, and sometimes he's the man who knows least about it.

There was always a big party on the night before anyone left for the States. They called it an American wake, because the whole community stayed up to keep the emigrants company through their last night on the island, just as they would have bidden farewell to a soul beginning the long journey towards eternity. There was almost no chance that anyone present would ever see the departed again

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today....

Girls usually have a paper m'chÈ face on their wedding day.

Po to i ma szlachta krew, aby j? przelewa?a

Until the Civil War there was scarcely a man in public life in New Orleans or Louisiana who had not fought at least one duel; most of them had engaged in several.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

On hearing that she was to continue to act as Malcolm Sage's secretary, Miss Gladys Norman had done a barn-dance across the room, her arrival at the door synchronising with the appearance of Malcolm Sage from without. It had become a tradition at Department Z that "M.S." could always be depended upon to arrive at the most embarrassing moment of any little dramatic episode; but it was equally well-known that he possessed a "blind-side" to his vision. They called it "the Nelson touch.