Quotes About Tradition

1. Per educare occorre proporre adeguatamente il passato.

Doesn't every town in America have an old-timer called The Professor? That duffer who knows everything and everybody, as long as they are dead.

The Sinaloans had heard that the Sonorans indulged in the unspeakable atrocity of eating flour tortillas. Flour! Any human being knew that tortillas were made of corn.

The whole family had inherited the bizarre belief system of Antonio and América: instant coffee was some kind of miracle.

She is a karateka ," La Osa replied. "Nayeli could karate-kick you to death where you sit." "That's hardly feminine." He sniffed. "Perhaps," Nayeli suggested, "it is time for a new kind of femininity.

He, who endlessly combated his family's reliance on 'Mexican time.' They drove him crazy. If a dinner gathering was announced for six o'clock, he could be sure it wouldn't start until nine. They'd walk in as if they were early. Or worse, they'd say 'What?' as if he were the one with a problem. You know you're Mexican when lunch doesn't show up till ten at night.

Do gringos kiss?' Big Angel asked. 'Some,' Little Angel said. 'I know guys. Kiss their dads.' 'Everybody kisses moms, though.' 'Kissing moms doesn't count. It's required.' 'Right, right. If you don't kiss your mom, forget it, man.' 'Right? You don't get to heaven if you don't kiss your mom.

Forty-five minutes of embraces and ostentatious arrivals and all the siblings arranging themselves in the front row and the rings of descendants, like shock waves of a meteor strike, radiating back through the room. Paz

The Sinaloans had heard that Sonorans indulged in the unspeakable atrocity of eating flour tortillas. Flour! Any human being knew that tortillas were made of corn.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

From Hunayn ibn-Ishak (Diogenes,8), we learn about his view of women and education: when he saw a man teaching a girl how to read and write, he advised him not to make a bad thing even worse.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

At Imbolg, we always use a version of that in our ritual, with each person who wishes to pulling out three strands of hair by the roots and feeding them into a flame while putting themselves anew under the protection of Brighidh.

As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging.

Next year, when you return, you'll bring the ashes back and toss them onto that year's bonfire. In this way, each of us comes back to this place, bringing some of the past, leaving with some of the future. Will those of you who have ashes from last year please bring them forward?" he asked.

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

Generosity is a mark of bravery, so all Sioux boys were taught to be generous.

However Santa is handled in your home, it provides an opportunity to teach children about wise words as they are exposed to those whose Christmas tradition differs from theirs.

Esclavas nuevas, ideas viejas

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Like most rural girls, I had graduated from the Volkschule