Quotes About Tradition

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Dinnertime was a formal, nearly a sacred, hour – usually more like two hours. At half past seven they went upstairs to bathe and change into dinner jacket and teagown.

She was opening the window as high as the sash would go – that's one of their superstitions, something to do with letting the spirit go freely. They do it.

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

Why, it's a commandment handed down by our ancestors. That was the way they behaved--" "And I suppose their conduct was invariably impeccable, huh?" Chris mocked. "One of the reasons I've always had respect for polygamy is that our ancestors handed it down to us.

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

The women say that it may be that the feminaries have fulfilled their function. They say they have no means of knowing. They say that thoroughly indoctrinated as they are with ancient texts no longer to hand, these seem to them outdated. All they can do to avoid being encumbered with useless knowledge is to heap them up in the squares and set fire to them. That would be an excuse for celebrations.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me.

When they tote up our contribution," Luke once said, "all that can be claimed for us is that we took 'fuck' out of the oral tradition and wrote it plain.

Virginity was regarded with superstitious awe, perhaps because there was so little of it.)

The culture of a given time and place is a product of inherited tradition, of the recovery of lost or obscured forms of thought, of innovation. Such seeds, fertilized by prosperity, tended by leisure, and warmed by the sun of peace, may produce an abundant bloom.

The romantic idealization of love and the beloved had no source in Roman or Germanic tradition. It came apparently from Islamic Spain, where women had a good deal of freedom and were often poets in their own right. It was there that a mystical doctrine of love as a holy passion, pure and uplifting, developed. Arabic literature is full of parted and thwarted lovers, totally faithful and devoted. Its poetry is mostly love poetry, foreshadowing the themes and styles of the French troubadours.

As of now, if you want to marry from Kiruhura District, they'll give you a wife and you take cows later because of the foot and mouth disease

You find a village without pit latrines, But when a person dies, folks dig the grave in 3 minutes. Let's talk!

Therefore, Yoga culture and mysticism is the oldest known tradition of spiritual development and Indian mysticism is an extension of the Ancient Egyptian mysticism.

How queer, the Hindus don't feed their cows although they call the cow "mother"!' Bakha thought.

Religion and culture are like a totem pole extending far underground, under the layers of the earth, of different eras of cultures and times, going far into the core of philosophy.

According to polygamy, men are royals and women so loyal.

Arranged marriage is literally an arrow to the heart. It pierces deep inside, but its fruits are still beautiful at the end.

Culture is dependent upon the society.

History appears to be an endless journey and it's always found from generation to generation.

My culture acts as my compass in life.

Perhaps true equality will be to abolish the idea of dowry between lovers.

Polygamy is so beautiful for men. But a woman marrying two husbands that could end up as a BREAKING NEWS.