Quotes About Tradition

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

There was to be a ngoma that night, as there always was for full moons—a tribal dance of the young Kikuyu men and women, up the high embankment at the far edge of the forest.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. But

And so it was that every few weeks, on a Saturday morning, I went home to Njoro to be a wife. D

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

would have liked to kiss her on the cheek but he had no idea if the Kiowas kissed one another or if so, did grandfathers kiss granddaughters. You never knew. Cultures were mine fields. He patted the air with a gentle motion. Sit. Stay.

Without innovation, tradition has no future.

biography has always been the first clue to theology, and in Christian tradition the reality of God is believed to have been biographized in Jesus as the Christ"I--

Down the corridor, the staircase was decorated with paintings of them all, her and Mum and Grandad and countless other similar faces that stared out at her and reminded her, as she climbed down the stairs, that men and women may come and go, be born and die, but the family goes on and stays the same forever.

Submission is the price you pay for being a married woman!

Never forget where you came from, Gina Attaviano, Alessandro said to her before he died. Then it will always be easy.

Tatiana heard Alexander say, "Don't bother with shots. Pour mine straight into a glass." "Good man," said Papa, pouring him a glass.

We will call him Anthony Alexander Barrington. After my father and brother. We'll call him Alexander.

When the Russian kettlebell meets an American steak, it is a beautiful thing.

When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified. "Hasidic Noir

Laughter through tears: it's the Southern way.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

Sylvia enjoyed her Christmas Day with Gwan and her family;

And they used to have cross burnin's a lot more and family picnics and softball games and all such,' said Donald. 'I remember eatin' cake next to that glowing cross. I loved my mama's cake.' 'Yeah,' several voiced their agreement. 'We don't do nothin' now,' a man complained. 'I don't even know where my hood is. I don't even own a rope.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece

Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.

He's kinda shy. Maybe I should ask him out." "I think it's more traditional for you to trick him into asking you out. That way he feels more manly.

I use the pay phone to call my friend Noel. The last time I was here he took me up a mountainside in Connemara with a seventy-eight-year-old poteen-maker who'd learned his craft as a teenager from his father. We spent the day watching him double-distill brown bog water in two oil drums over a turf fire into something that tasted like the finest malt. Noel acted as interpreter, as the old man spoke no English. Perhaps he'll have another adventure in store for me this time.