Quotes About Tradition

Douglass's later, prolific appeals to the natural-rights tradition, and even to the right of revolution, should be first considered in light of these compelling, damaging childhood memories of such cruelty.

Whenever Douglass made arguments against slavery from the natural-rights tradition

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the bast bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the past bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.

Agama bukan sekadar ritual dan tata cara. Ada makna di balik ritual dan tata cara itu.

In a gourd that had been handed down for three centuries, a flower that would fade in a morning.

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

Father's life was only a very small part of the life of a tea bowl.

Humankind, with its long history, is by now a corpse bound to a tree with the ropes of convention. If the ropes were cut, the corpse would simply fall to the ground. Prayer in one's mother tongue is a manifestation of that pathetic state. -from A Prayer in the Mother Tongue

Pero ¿por qué una virgen es pura y otra mujer no?

Una de las muchachas era hermosa. Llevaba un bulto envuelto en un pañuelo con un diseño blanco de mil grullas sobre un fondo rosado de crespón

Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister.

Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

A different kind of history from my mother's, the kind that is barely written down—that is felt.

It is a paradox of human dynamics, of how the progress of new ideas often rests on the survival of old ways.

You cannot avoid hearing drums in Haiti.

Dis ain't no business proposition, and no race after property and titles. Dis is uh love game. Ah done lived Grandma's way, now Ah means tuh live mine.

comfort for herself. Yes, she would love Logan after they were married. She could see no way for it to come about, but Nanny and the old folks had said it, so it must be so. Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what

Their Eyes is a bold feminist novel, the first to be explicitly so in the Afro-American tradition.

For Zora Neale Hurston has been "rediscovered" in a manner unprecedented in the black tradition: