Quotes About Tradition

Watching a performance of warriors, I was told, "This fighter's tradition is six hundred years old." And I saw a performance so mired in ritual— As if nothing valid had happened in six hundred years. We must honor the classical without being irrelevant.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

tradition is the guru, the person who turns darkness (gu) into light (ru). The guru, in other words, is a teacher.

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

Many French women (moi included) believe that the right day to cut is on a full moon.

Ever since that day in Chicago, whenever I see such scenes, I think of a quote by Billat-Savarin, the eighteenth-century 'modern' gastronome, well known for his writings and meditations on the physiology of taste and for his famous dictum 'We are what we eat.' But he also wrote even more revealingly: 'The destiny of a nation depends on how it feeds itself.

A light supper, starting with an evening soup (often done in French households), is conducive to a great night's sleep.

Nothing makes you feel more beautiful than a sari.

My heart is still Bengali. Isn't Didu's?

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

The day this person left our organization is considered an annual holiday!" [quote from author's and his colleague's national study with over 400 participants in the research]

Ottery St Mary, Devon

For girls, war meant having the upper halves of one or more fingers chopped off each time a close relative was killed, to satisfy the dead person's ghost.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Over decades that seem but a moment in time, lines of scarlet figures shuttled among the sorghum stalks to weave a vast human tapestry. They killed, they looted, and they defended their country in a valiant, stirring ballet that makes us unfilial descendants who now occupy the land pale by comparison.

I yang Den vita hästens berg och yin Den svarta vattnets flod växer ännu en stjälk av äkta sorghum. Du måste offra allt för att finna den.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

But as soon as a new party rapidly gains the ability to project muscle more effectively, invokes tradition or moral code in a more alluring way, presents a more persuasive pitch, or offers a larger reward, power will shift and reorganize the landscape, potentially in drastic ways.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.