Quotes About Customs

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.

Ceremony and ritual are like a warm, fuzzy coat to the Brits. It feels good to put it on.

American servicewomen will continue to be viewed as second-class warriors if leaders push them to take up the customs of countries where women are second-class citizens.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members…. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

The whole idea of Hogmanay is part of your life growing up in Scotland. It's a big deal. It's one of the biggest celebrations ever. It was always about 'Where you going? What are you doing?'

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

We actors are an especially superstitious lot.

I think I'm a little superstitious.

Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.

Skaters are infamously superstitious.

Footballers are very superstitious.

I'm not just a little stitious. I'm superstitious.

manism (ancestor cults)—but it was not as concerned

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

Of course, our servings had assumed that one was making at least a three-course meal à la française. But that wasn't the American style of eating, so we had to compromise.

The Fourth Crown Princess of the blue Cresent Islands had sixteen rituals to observe from the moment of waking to when she broke her fast.

Judaism offered no Shivah for lost love. There was no Kaddish to say, no candle to burn...no injunction against listening to music or going to work.

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

According to tradition, my great-grandfather married early, at 14, with a woman six years older. It was considered to be one of the duties of the wife to raise her husband.