Quotes About Tradition

Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?

?piewanie by?o niegodne m??czyzny.

Na pocz?tku cz?sto z Niil? dyskutowali?my, czy nasze granie mo?na uzna? za knapsu. S?owo jest tornedalsko-fi?skie i oznacza "babski", zatem co?, czym zajmuj? si? tylko kobiety. Mo?na by powiedzie?, ?e rola m??czyzn w Tornedalen ogranicza si? tylko do jednego: nie by? knapsu.

Is there a point at which every Sunday during the NFL season ceases to make a man feel like a kid on Christmas morning?

Craters on Mercury have to be named for deceased poets; moon of Uranus are named for Shakespearean characters. For this type of object in the Kuiper belt, the rules said that the name had to be a creation deity in a mythology

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey — until Thanksgiving.

I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.

Beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore.

The two of them shook hands the regular way. The old-school way.

THEIR GRANDKIDS MAKE THEM DO IT. This was the case with George Harrison, and it made us all feel very old.

My father has a tendency to start conversations in the middle of sentences. He's also suspicious of anything modern - like nouns.

It is sad, in a way, that the exploding auto is going the way of the old red streetcar, the horse-drawn milk wagon, the ice truck and other traditional and practical forms of transportation. A shotgun blast from a clump of bushes is nice in its own way, but for drama there is nothing like instant depreciation of a car with a gangster at the wheel.

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

Carnival is not a spectacle seen by the people; they live in it, and everyone participates because its very idea embraces all the people. While carnival lasts, there is no other life outside it. During carnival time life is subject only to its laws, that is, the laws of its own freedom.

It was impossible for the human mind to suspect that it was itself the sole creator of the divine world. It found the divine world before it; it found it as history, as tradition, as a sentiment, as a habit of thought; and it necessarily made it the object of its loftiest speculations. Thus was born metaphysics, and thus were developed and perfected the divine ideas, the basis of Spiritualism.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

We have memorized America, how it was born and who we have been and where. In ceremonies and silence we say the words, telling the stories, singing the old songs. We like the places they take us. Mostly we do.

He had hardly ever allowed himself the things that really gave him pleasure. Tradition and obligation had tyrannized over all his hours.

It has been said ever since that the Brankoviches of Erdély count in Tzintzar, lie in Walachian, are silent in Greek, sing hymns in Russian, are cleverest in Turkish and speak their mother tongue --Serbian-- only when they intend to kill.

In Hungary, in Szentendre, there is a cafe they call Nostalgia. They serve coffee with cinnamon there, and I seem to be having cinnamon in my coffee more and more often.

Bagel: a doughnut dipped in cement, a Jewish brass-knuckle.

I like the West. That's where men are men and women are women, and it's hard to beat a combination like that.

AN ANCIENT ANISE BREAD Buccellato

The peasants knew that a spoiled son did more harm to a family than a dead one, and they kept themselves from indulging him too much.