Quotes About Tradition

They have a saying among them: 'When whores are few, a boy will do.

While other monks in training were routinely whipped with whips made of leather straps, the whip reserved for the Dalai Lama was made of yellow silk.

The Dalai Lama has also suggested that the fifteenth Dalai Lama could be female.

That edict remains in place to the present day.

The poets of other countries learned from the troubadours many lessons in literary form; their refining influence upon manners was also widely felt and their attitude toward woman was generally adopted. Provençal literature

The poets of other countries learned from the troubadours many lessons in literary form; their refining influence upon manners was also widely felt and their attitude toward woman was generally adopted.

We therefore owe our universities to the Middle Ages.

For example, the resemblance between the word for "bride" and the verb meaning "to steal away" in Indo-Germanic languages is taken as evidence of marriage by capture in early times

Among the oldest craft gilds in Germany were the weavers of Mainz (1099), the fishermen of Worms (1106), the shoemakers of Würzburg (1128), the makers of bed-ticks and the turners of Cologne, and the cobblers, tailors, and painters of Magdeburg from the twelfth century.

In times of great crisis, Americans have traditionally turned to their president for leadership, and they did so with Roosevelt now.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

Language is not only a means of speech and thought, it is a bridge with the significant function of bringing the wealth of the past to our day and conveying today's heritage and our new compositions to the future.

Nations that can manage to develop their language and make it accommondating while at the same time staying faithful to the roots of it are the most communicative societies that are also most dynamic in thought.

it says: "In no case did he appeal to the rabbinic schools of teaching with their traditions and precepts of men. He faithfully referred his

The priests who attended this secret meeting did so in the tradition of their enslaved black ancestors who often stole off in secrecy to learn to read and write. Like their ancestors, they were "stealing a meeting." The meeting lasted well into the night.

the medieval practice of proclaiming saints through the acclamation of the people.

My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.

The newspaper concluded: "Now tradition takes over, masks are the rule, and the carnival begins.

nce each year, my father used to take us to the symphony. We never had good seats but Ba said it didn't matter, the point was to be there, to exist in the room while music, however old it might be, was being renewed.

Once each year, my father used to take us to the symphony. We never had good seats but Ba said it didn't matter, the point was to be there, to exist in the room while music, however old it might be, was being renewed.

Perhaps the single most important ritual a family can observe is having dinner together.

When at last they pulled off the veil, they say my mother smiled. That is how they knew she was quite stupid. Brides did not smile.

In Gee's Bend, Alabama, he bent an ear to church-mother Mrs. Eugene Witherspoon, who informed him that watery grits goes with sleazy ways.