Quotes About Tradition

Nina could defend arranged marriages in her sleep, she had been asked about them so often. To her horror, she had even begun to sound like her mother.

The tradition that refuses to entertain doubt, or remains impervious to new thoughts and ideas, becomes a prison rather than a sustaining life force.

and the one mistake they made above all others—the mistake that has always threatened the culture of a people—was the attempt to set up a new life here, yet bring from the old world most of its laws, most of its corruption and nearly all of its errors. They brought over with them many of the very things they had attempted to escape.

W]e must have the courage to break with traditional law, establish ourselves in our own way of life. We must do so harmoniously, cooperatively, and courageously. We must do so with the full conviction that those who are selfish, those who are ignorant— and they are not necessarily uneducated, but those profoundly ignorant—will be unhappy about the whole thing.

Elle avait cette bonhomie exaspérante de ceux qui pensent, par tradition familiale ou faiblesse d'esprit, que la vie est simple pour peu qu'on sache la prendre du bon côté...

Antes que poeta hubiera preferido ser un buen banderillero

A symbolic way of coming full circle in a world where representations of heredity express a substantial form of continuity between generations in other respects as well.

lineage is only the normal marker of passing time.

There is a Japanese belief that business is temporal, whereas relationships are eternal.

I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.

her the title of queen, which was something not customary before then to him or to his people'.

Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it's the audience.

It is not simply to show power...that a man...throws coppers into the sea...In doing this he is also sacrificing to the gods and spirits...

Ä°skandinav uygarl???nda ve daha birçok baÅŸkalar?nda, deÄŸiÅŸ tokuÅŸlar ve sözleÅŸmeler, teoride gönüllü gerçekte ise zorunlu olarak yap?lan ve geri verilen hediyeler ÅŸeklinde ortaya ç?kar.

I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the New Year.

Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable.

ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.

Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable. Certainly

Empresa más fácil podemos acometer. Una región hay, si no miente antigua y profética tradición del cielo, hay un mundo, dichosa mansión de un ser nuevo llamado Hombre, que por este tiempo ha debido ser criado semejante a nosotros, inferior en poderío y excelencia, pero más favorecido del Hacedor supremo.

And when one is feeling gay and full of joy, the saké must be brought out to lift the spirits higher. And they drank, your papa and mine and the mayor's brother, and I only a little because I was even happier than they and needed no false joy.

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, 'See! This our fathers did for us.

This boy's been married so often he's got rice burns on his face.

most old farmhouses were built like that.