Quotes About Traditions

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

How we preserve time for family is one of the most significant issues we face in most cultures.

If a marriage is to endure over time, it has to be because both people within it have tacitly acknowledged something that young lovers might find preposterous: it's bigger, and more important, than both of us. It's love, sure, and inside jokes and conversational shorthand. But it's also families, friends, traditions, landmarks, knowledge, history.

without honor and kindness there are no rituals in the world that make any difference

Traditions are seldom lies; traditions reflect people's deepest beliefs and customs. They have their own truth

Christmas celebrations in the early colonies to the condemnations today of the commercial nature of the feast.

Fairness is a muddled mix of beliefs, traditions and multiple and sometimes opposing truths.

The ryotwari and mahalwari systems of taxation had the additional feature of abolishing all private property which had belonged to the affluent as well as the inferior cultivating classes, thereby abolishing century-old traditions and ties that linked people to the land.

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

I want my kids to live their life with great family memories that they can pass on to their children.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

Cultures are not that easily disposed of.' She looked over the dark lake, then began again. 'You can prune and shape the young tree, but the roots go deep. To tear them out is painful, perhaps impossible. And the long taproot may stay in the soil without your knowing.

Human kinship systems vary enormously but not limitlessly. There are always rules prohibiting sex (and hence marriage) with certain kinds of kin.

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

I love being home at Christmastime.

This conglomeration of decayed antiquity, collected with the disease of greed, surely invites our charity. It would be better to forget these trumpery ideas, and learn the best of traditions by observing your own functions, and regarding modernity in an unbiased way.10

Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.

When you hear about people in the '50s getting married at 20, you're like, 'What were they thinking?' My grandparents were together for over 50 years.

I was with a Russian family, and I couldn't believe that the grandparents in Russia, first of all I was shocked and delighted to find that the Russian family that I'd been told was so different from the American family, was exactly the same.

My father used to celebrate all festivals like Eid, Diwali, Holi, Christmas, etc. with great gusto.

I love Halloween. I love Thanksgiving. I love Christmas. I love New Year's.