Quotes About Customs

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. —Mark Twain

Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.

The Africans wouldn't consider it a real visit unless they ate.

He disliked English, not because they had invaded his country, but because of the effort required to understand their different languages and customs. At the same time, he was in no hurry for them to leave, for he admired them, most of the time, not for the modernity they were establishing but for the business opportunities they brought with them.

My family had taught me to eat everything on my plate, especially at a restaurant, where food is more expensive . . . But the shoemaker had a different way of thinking. She thought that if you were providing someone with dinner, the only way to tell if they were satisfied was if there was food left on their plate, because it meant you knew for sure they were no longer hungry.

The rabbi gets the fees, but it's the moyl who gets all the tips.

No puedo hacerme a esas conversaciones y fingir que me intereso por sus cosas como se acostumbra.

Amen Lula said and she made the sign of the cross. I thought you were Baptist. Yeah, but we don't got any hand signals for an occasion like this.

Among the upper classes, especially three or four generations ago, men and women had separate bedrooms. That's just the way it was.

Don't ask for a girl's hand in marriage and forget to ask for her leg too.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Mexico is a very mom-centered culture. You'll find stores open on Father's Day, but never on Mother's Day. For us, mothers are very important.

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

In church they sang "Gott is de liebe" and made such a month-long fuss over Christmas that customs in America changed as well. They

In Europe's Neolithic past, long, long ago when human communities were mostly tribes, in the ancient days of our ancestors well before the introduction of any spiritual path we know—or could possibly imagine—earth-centered spiritual practices were customary.

Throughout the Middle Ages and particularly during the Renaissance period, the word "Witchcraft" was liberally applied by the Christian church and its authorities to the native religious practices and customs that existed for thousands of years before Christianity.

The contemporary spiritual practice of Witchcraft is based on many of the old customs and folk wisdom of old Europe. Because of this, practitioners have reclaimed the word "Witch." Contemporary practitioners view the word as one of power and they reclaim it in an effort to be mindful of the cost of religious intolerance, to release negative associations and to forge a new future.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

I shake everybody's hand before the game, but Oklahoma City, they don't shake hands. Only some of them, but I don't think they really shake hands before the game.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.

For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.