Quotes About Traditions

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

I'd have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how much money my parents had or didn't have, we got completely spoiled rotten. There were always presents under the tree, and we always did special things, like hide elves around the house.

I celebrate everything. We always had a menorah and a Christmas tree - not for any reason other than we always liked celebrating things.

I have great respect for Oklahoma's tribal members, and I celebrate their traditions and culture.

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.

I think we have a lot to learn from ancient cultures and different tribes.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

Three major forces largely shaped the world in which Christianity was born and developed: the Scriptures and traditions of Judaism, the culture of Greece, and the political power of Rome.

Christianity and Islam are the two greatest religions today. They are the traditions that draw the atheists' ire. And they are the ones that are redrawing the geopolitical map.

Religions cannot be reduced to "belief systems" any more than they can be reduced to "ritual systems." Belief is a part of most religions, but only a part, and in most cases not the most important part.

Americans are both deeply religious and

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.

Mystics from all traditions have the common aim of cultivating wakefulness, while the common aim of all mainstream religions is to offer consolation and psychological support. To use a medical analogy, while mystics try to heal themselves (that is, to transcend sleep), conventionally religious people simply try to manage the symptoms. Near-death

What he perceives (rightly in my view) is that contemporary social liberalism ("progressivism") reflects certain core (and constitutive) ideas and beliefs—ideas and beliefs that partially defined the traditions of paganism that were dominant in the ancient Mediterranean world and in certain other places up until the point at which they were defeated, though never quite destroyed, by the Jewish sect that came to be known as Christianity.

The colorful state of Gujrat celebrates hundreds of festivals every year. Makar Sankranti or Uttarayan is one of the biggest festivals amongst them. Thousands of colorful kites decorate the sky and several rooftops crowded with friends and relatives fly them with unending enthusiasm.

There's just really interesting facets of culture just swirling in Morocco. They all have slightly different colours, so it's just an inspiring place to be.

No matter if Judeo-Christian rhetoric claims peace and understanding, they do so with one foot upon a grave- mound of separate traditions who don't acknowledge and submit to the restriction and ignorance of monotheism.

It was in the mosque that al-Zarqawi first discovered Salafism, a doctrine that in its contemporary form advocates a return to theological purity and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad. Salafists deem Western-style democracy and modernity not only fundamentally irreconcilable with Islam, but the main pollutants of the Arab civilization

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

Las calles, la plaza y los edificios no hacían un pueblo, ni tan siquiera le daban fisionomía. A un pueblo lo hacían sus hombres y su historia. [...] Por las casas que flanqueaban pasaron hombres honorables, que hoy eran sombras, pero que dieron al pueblo y al valle un sentido, una armonía, unas costumbres, un ritmo, un modo propio y peculiar de vivir.

Anthropologists

Yes, of course, black Americans are a special group, and I'm disappointed that they're not Republicans, given our traditions. We're not getting much love in return, despite our efforts.

Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important.