Quotes About Traditions

Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

He asked that beautiful Yogini in his lucid dream. "Can the higher caste people eat the eggs?" Yogini smiled at him, and said. "All humans are born equal. The castes were created by man, not by God. Your caste is defined by your character and what's in your heart, not by what's in your stomach. Eat healthy food that Science teaches, not what those ancient traditions dictate."

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

Olivina is very old school when it comes to traditions, so you leading the rescue was a bit much for her, but personally I thought what you did was very valiant.

a family was an act of creation, the piecing together of disparate fragments into one cloth -- often harmonious, occasionally clashing and discordant, but sometimes unexpectedly beautiful and strong. Without contrast, there was no pattern... and each piece... would endure if sewn fast to the others with strong seams -- bonds of love and loyalty, traditions and faith.

For all invented traditions, so far as possible, use history as a legitimator of action and cement of group cohesion.

The Jewish and particularly the Christian traditions have stressed the element of sin but have ignored the fact that it is the emancipation from the security of Paradise which is the basis for man's truly human development.

People tend to hold a lot of superstitions when it comes to old graveyards

On exagère trop souvent sur l'influence des religions sur les peuples, tandis qu'on néglige à l'inverse l'influence des peuples sur les religions.

What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself

Strange things our parents give us that we cannot give away or put on a shelf.

Surrealism is only trying to rejoin the most durable traditions of mankind. Among the primitive peoples art always goes beyond what is conventionally and arbitrarily called the 'real'.

The lack of understanding by the Germans, but not only the Germans, for Anglo-Saxon traditions and American reality is an old story. —Hannah Arendt

The very ground on which the structure of 20th-century fundamentalist theology and politics was built has crumbled into sand. The reason for which modern fundamentalism was created—in opposition to modernism and liberal theology—has been swept away in the avalanche of new ideas, in new dialogue between different faith traditions.

Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.

In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding planting and harvests, the prayers that are sent upward for healing and peace, and the welcoming of children into our families, are all reasons for us to keep moving forward with optimism.

I think that the United States and the Philippines have always had a good relationship with each other. We were colonized by the Americans and we have their culture and our traditions even up to this day and I think that we're very welcoming with the Americans. And I don't see any problem with that at all.

Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order to shape our communal remembering.

We moved to America when I was young, but we were always very Welsh in our home. The humor, food, traditions. Very Welsh.

I lived next to Russian soldiers. We had Russian army guys in our house when I grew up. We made lemonade for them; they were everywhere. I had a Russian school. I grew up with Russian traditions, I know Russian songs... it infiltrates me a lot. I even speak a little Russian.

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.