Quotes About Traditions

No nation has a single history, no people a single song.

German football is very different to football in South America.

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

The Pyrrhonian skeptics were docile citizens who followed customs and traditions whenever possible, but taught themselves to systematically doubt everything, and thus attain a level of serenity. But while conservative in their habits, they were rabid in their fight against dogma.

traditions provide an aggregation of filtered collective knowledge

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

Well, perhaps this isolation was a Texas thing. Rules and traditions were different here than in the rest of the Mericas. They didn't call it the Lone Star region for nothing.

To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day … was a man born just to endure those things and then die?

visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation.

The church can seldom resurrect what the home puts to death.

Scandinavians generally possess an intimate understanding of nature and because of this have a heightened appreciation of the intrinsic qualities of raw materials (especially local ones). The long and rich traditions of craftmanship and folk art that have existed in all five countries demonstrate not only the Scandinavian peoples' empathy for materials, but also their desire to infuse everyday objects with a natural, unpretentious beauty.

In various traditions it is common to avoid calling a magical creature by its real name; in Russia the bear is often referred to as Mishka, an affectionate nickname, rather than by its proper name of Medved, or 'honey knower'. (This is paralleled in English, where even today in equestrian terminology, the correct term for a white horse is 'grey', once the way of showing respect to the sacred white horse.)

Everything has its own force and spirit. Seen in this light, inherited folklore beliefs are not just quaint traditions, but part of an active engagement between humans and the 'otherworld', a celestial drama fearsome in its scale and awesome in power.

What was missing in all of them, he thought, was a recognition of Africans as people with projects—lives they were leading, aspirations they were striving for—and a rich existing culture, exemplified in the proverbs and the religious traditions that are threaded through these novels. He was writing, as he often said, against the Africa of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

And by hearing all the stories we will find points of contact and communication, and the world story, the Great Story, will have a chance to develop. That's the only precaution I would suggest—that we not rush into announcing the arrival of this international, this great world story, based simply on our knowledge of one or a few traditions.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.

I've always tried to keep my family and how I was raised and my morals in the back of my head.

Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.

Regardless of approach, the past holds something valuable for all of us. It is literally the root of who we are, physically through our actual ancestors and culturally in establishing the foundations for our current beliefs and practices in religious, social, domestic, and political arenas. The same ancients that we study were themselves drawn to their own pasts, often asking questions similar to the ones we pose today about our past.

The way that most men deal with traditions, even traditions of their own country, is to receive them all alike as they are delivered, without applying any critical test whatever.

One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others.

One may learn a great deal about a people by the stories they tell of others.