Quotes About Tradition

A quanto si dice, quando alla fine venne scostato il velo, mia madre sorrise. E fu così che mio padre capì che era idiota. Le spose non sorridono. Qando partorì me, un maschio, mio padre mi sfilò dalle sue braccia e mi passò a una levatrice. Mossa a compassione, la donna diede a mia madre un cuscino da stringere al mio posto. Lei lo abbracciò. Non parve notare alcuna differenza.

What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Her grandmother keeps announcing that Esme will never find a husband if she doesn't change her ways. Yesterday, when she said it at breakfast, Esme replied "Good" and was sent to finish her meal in the kitchen.

The smell of his grandparents' home is always the same: a mix of woodsmoke, polish, leather, wool.

there are the parents, then the sons, then the daughter, then the pigs in the pig-pen and the hens in the henhouse, then the apprentice and then, right at the bottom, the serving maids. Agnes believes her position, as new daughter-in-law, to be ambiguous, somewhere between apprentice and hen. Agnes

The grandmother was waiting in the parlour. She had on a long black skirt that reached to the ground and she moved as if she was on wheels. Esme doesn't think she ever saw her feet. She proffered a cheek for her son to kiss, then surveyed Esme and Kitty through pince-nez. 'Ishbel,' she said to their mother, who was suddenly standing very erect and very alert on the hearthrug, 'something will have to be done about the clothes.

Esme picks up woollen combinations and asks where they go in the baffling order of things. The shopgirl looks at their grandmother who shakes her head. 'They are from the colonies,' she says.

Her grandmother keeps announcing that Esme will never find a husband if she doesn't change her ways. Yesterday, when she said it at breakfast, Esme replied, good, and was sent to finish her meal in the kitchen.

The traditional way to use roses is in beds. These can be any shape and are an attractive, albeit conservative, choice for a formal garden. More exciting

it's customary in the empire to grant positions of high office to people who know little about their subject; in my case the custom is being maintained to the letter.

And I implore those who hide behind the high sounding phrase called tradition, to realise that they throw this word around only to mask their unwillingness to change - Mahesh Bhatt

nos enfrentamos a un eclipse de nuestra vida católica tradicional como fuerza visible con algún nivel de eficacia. También opino, eminencia, que el papa debe considerar la estructura tradicional de su Iglesia como algo inútil y pasado de moda, puesto que permite su decadencia. Si ésa no es su idea, no hay otra forma de comprenderlo que como totalmente aberrante y negligente de su responsabilidad pontificia como papa.

In the wake of harvest bonfires, Hugh and other men collected and boiled the ashes, which the women made into soap—some thought it the hardest day's work of the year.

It is the right of the grandfather to tell the grandson later what was said while in the womb. It is the right of the grandfather to give the name that will serve as a life program to its bearer. Grandfather

So one of the ways to maintain a certain sense of self is to remain somewhat linked to essential traditionalism.

In the Buddhist tradition, intention is about living each moment with integrity and in keeping with what matters most to you. Buddhists

Every family has its own unique song. Notice what yours is, and sing it loudly and proudly.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.