Quotes About Customs

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.

They do not eat Yorkshire pudding on Sunday in Iowa.

I cannot stand when you go to a wedding and get fed tiny portions. I want everyone to have a good feed on my wedding day, so I plan on having several types of sausage, mash, and gravy up for grabs. Every guest will have a Yorkshire pudding, too!

I have been instilled with culture from such a young age that I know who I am, and I know once sporting is out of the picture, I will have this to come back to and continue the customs and traditions that I've been taught.

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

The Georgians will treat you like royalty, and the odds are you'll do a lot of eating, drinking and toasting.

I celebrate everything. We always had a menorah and a Christmas tree - not for any reason other than we always liked celebrating things.

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

Christians get trees. Jews get bushes. To stay in good standing with the Tribe, you've got to refer to a Christmas tree as a Hanukkah bush.

Umgangsformen sind Formen, die zunehmend umgangen werden.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.

To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.

I'd been brought up in a society which didn't talk about sex, food, money, religion or politics. Those things were all deemed slightly rude.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

Chacun appelle barbarie ce qui n'est pas de son usage.

Meus próprios costumes, que não chegam a distar uma polegada dos costumes correntes, mesmo assim me tornam de certo modo intratável e insociável para o meu século. Não sei se me desgosto sem razão com o mundo em que vivo, mas sei bem que não teria razão se me queixasse de ele se desgostar comigo tanto quanto eu com ele.

People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went about pretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.

Customs all over the world still search me first. I mean, why? Do they think dope smugglers look like me? I don't think so. And how long have they had to absorb this information? The dope smugglers are the [well-dressed] people with briefcases going right behind me. And they still haven't got the brains to figure that out. They say, "Everyone with long hair is a drug smuggler." Well good fucking luck.