Quotes About Traditions

Besides, it will be good to show your traditions around those rich folk. Shohreh and Farhour will dance, and you will play. It will be perfect. You should entertain and extract, my friend. You should put some culture to it if you want to live and shit.

I've always been the one who is more enthusiastic about Christmas than my family. I regress to a child state, chanting carols.

Christmas to me, obviously, basketball is very important to me, but there are some days of the year where it's got to take a back seat to something.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.

A lot of Brazilians are very superstitious, especially footballers. I'm the same. I always step on to the pitch with my right foot first.

the daily papers were beginning to scream about how terrible it would be if you didn't get your Christmas shopping done early. It would be terrible anyway; it always is. It

Family traditions that hinder your ability to love, understand, and succeed are false—they

Disruption has been a favorite word of the Tech economy, but old-timers saw homes, communities, traditions, and relationships being disrupted.

Karima bint Ahmad (d. 1069) and Fatima bint Ali (d. 1087), for example, are regarded as two of the most important transmitters of the Prophet's traditions, while Zaynab bint al-Sha'ri (d. 1220) and Daqiqa bint Murshid (d. 1345), both textual scholars, occupied an eminent place in early Islamic scholarship. And it is hard to ignore the fact that nearly one sixth of all "reliable" hadith can be traced back to Muhammad's wife Aisha.

The American comedian Cathy Ladman observes that 'All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

There is something breathtakingly condescending, as well as inhumane, about the sacrificing of anyone, especially children, on the altar of 'diversity' and the virtue of preserving a variety of religious traditions.

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.

there were many old people in our congregation who had been raised to believe that Catholics kept guns in their churches for the day the Pope would order war on the Protestants.

Every single one of the major traditions—Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, as well as the monotheisms—teaches a spirituality of empathy, by means of which you relate your own suffering to that of others.

Breath control is crucial to most of the contemplative traditions... Qur'anic reciters chant long phrases for meditation. It is natural for the audience to adjust their breathing too and find that this has a calming, therapeutic effect, which enables them to grasp the more elusive teachings of the text.

inhabitants of countries that were colonized by the Europeans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries knew how profoundly distressing it was to watch a cherished way of life disappearing and beloved traditions decried by powerful, disdainful foreigners.

All religious people in any age have to make their traditions address the challenge of their particular modernity

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.