Quotes About Traditions

One of the hurdles of adulthood is when holidays become measuring sticks againt which you always fall short. For children, Thanksgiving is about turkey and Christmas is about presents. Grown up, you learn that all holidays are about family and few can win there.

As recently as the twentieth century, some cultures retained religious prohibitions asserting the "uncleanliness" of believers eating at the same table as musicians.

There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.

New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.

Balancing around the holidays is something I've been doing for years. I saved a lot of money by not going home for Christmas, that's for sure. But I still spoke with all my family and connected with everyone.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made people feel better when really horrible things happened, and it offered a repertoire of ceremonies that were used to add a touch of class to such goings-on as shacking up with someone and throwing dirt on a corpse. None of which especially bothered Zula or made her doubt its worthwhileness. Making sad people feel better was a fine thing to do.

We've missed you, Jack," she said, "where've you been?" "Running an errand—meeting some locals—partaking of their rich traditions," Jack said. "Can we get out of Germany now, please?

There are many people and many tribes, but only so many stories.

If in other respects the old condition of things be continued, and there be no discordance in their customs, men live peaceably with one another...

As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of 'Hi, it's nice to meet you' in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?

You get to tour some of the historic homes and listen to ghost stories. This is what people do in small towns? We could either do that or go sit on my porch, chew some tobacco, and play banjos.

We are a multicultural family. My mother is Hindu, my father Muslim. We celebrate every festival, be it Diwali or Eid.

When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.

I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.

I like mythology - anything historical.

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.