Quotes About Tradition

In the olden days, at least, they knew when to stop. " "Now they don't any more. In the olden days they had some shame as well." "Yes, now they ain't got no shame either.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

It used to be called the Lord's Day, now it is the weekend and if we group all holidays on weekends the devil will have scored another move against Sunday worship.

Probably, in the unfamiliar situation, responsibility was never formally allocated to anyone by anybody, and, human nature being incurably optimistic and fundamentally hostile to assuming any work not established as its own by long tradition, each person who might have shouldered the task of organization hopefully supposed it to have been performed by one of the other.

The War has little enough to its credit, but it did break the tradition that venereal disease or sexual brutality in a husband was amply compensated by an elegant bank-balance.

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

quinceañera. Case closed." Carmen and Jamie exchanged

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year

Santa Claus had the right idea. Visit everyone once a year.

Given the Western ability to produce deadly weapons, its propensity to create cheap, plentiful goods, and its tradition of seeing war in pragmatic rather than ritual terms as a mechanism to advance political ends, it is no surprise that Mesoamericans, African tribes, and native North Americans all joined European forces to help kill off Aztecs, Zulus, and Lakotas.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, and given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the living.' Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852

To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

I've always liked what the Navajos say when they part. They never say 'Goodbye.' They say 'Go in beauty.'

Beauty is my heritage, but home decor is very much my passion.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism

My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower.