Quotes About Tradition

It is an inescapable fact that the Great British Pudding is made of flour and water. In other words, our sweet culinary heritage is based on little more than glue. Sure, our puddings are sweetened with jam, or currants, or treacle, or syrup, or honey, or chocolate, or apples, but at their heart and soul is glue – something that cannot be said for a French crème brulée or an Italian tiramisu, or even a New York cheesecake.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

What we witness at the fea is not just a celebration of the multiplicity of modernities but also, and more importantly, a critical commentary on local structures of inequality that take for granted that both tradition and modernity are the prerogatives of the high ranking and wealthy.

I really don't know," the old lady brought out hesitatingly, "you see I've never sold the dead before.

The last day before Christmas had passed

When she was widowed, there were still pleasing qualities in her, suitable for an unpretentious everyday life, and people sent matchmakers to her, but she declined any new matrimony and busied herself with the baking of savory pies.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

CHRISTMAS is at our throats again.

Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back, but so they will kiss their children, and their children's children.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

According to her views," her niece later recalled, "little girls were to be taught to move very gently, to speak softly and prettily, to say 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, ma'am,' never to tear their clothes, to sew, to knit at regular hours, to go to church on Sunday and make all the responses, and to come home and be catechised." Harriet

In Hartford, Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

In Rahel's song, henna was blood and blood was henna.

If women are trapped by the whore/Madonna complex, men are equally trapped by this warrior/minstrel complex. What's more, while a man is expected to be modern, that is, to support feminism in all its particulars, to see and treat women as equals in every respect, he is on the other hand often still expected to be traditional at the same time, to treat a lady like a lady, to lead the way and pick up the check.

Os vivos comunicam-se mutuamente numa linguagem que, em grande medida, foi moldada pelos mortos. Assim, os mortos se vingam dos vivos por violarem seus valores.

Continuidades de uma tradição nacional de atitudes e comportamento, de uma "mística nacional", reforçadas através da repetição de experiências nacionais similares, constituem poderoso determinante de comportamento real.

Customs are formed, and the descendants of men are trapped therein. The generations pass without a chance to weed out the foolish from the essential—a regrettable situation.

When I was a child, my grandmother used to mix a paste for me of flour and water. Then I would go out into the yard and pick grass and make drawings out of pencil and grass pasted to the paper.

A dreidel is a four-sided top with a Hebrew letter on each side. The letters are Nun, Gimmel, Hay and Shin, which stand for the phrase "Nes Gadol Haya Sham," or "A Great Miracle Happened There." In Israel dreidels have the letters Nun, Gimmel, Hay and Peh, which stands for "A Great Miracle Happened Here.

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I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

Those with a traditional view of sexual morality-not all of them traditionally religious, by any means-denounce homosexuality as an impermissible detour from the natural course of sexuality. Indeed, the ancient notion of "the abominable and detestable crime against nature" has retained much of its emotional force, and may even be said to have provided the inner logic behind the Supreme Court's decision to uphold state antisodomy statutes.