Quotes About Traditions

Most of us are too close to the idea of progress to take cognizance either of the fact that this belief belongs only to a small part of recorded history, or of the other fact, that it represents a sharp break with our own religious professions and traditions.

Our remarks above indicate the depth and complexity of the traditional and applied qualitative research perspectives into which a socially situated researcher enters. These traditions locate the researcher in history, simultaneously guiding and constraining work that will be done in any specific study. This field has been constantly characterized by diversity and conflict, and these are its most enduring traditions (see Levin & Greenwood,

It is quite likely that a medieval European would decry our own culture in such terms for its failure to venerate the Blessed Virgin with sufficient fervor. Indeed, a wellbred Aztec would doubtless find us odd and emotionally stunted in our deplorable lack of enthusiasm for massive orgies of human sacrifice. We must therefore ask, in good cultural relativist fashion, whether Kellert is merely glorifying his own intense prejudices by describing them as human universals.

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

The Occidental snobbery which is invading us, the gunboats, rapid-fire guns, long-range rifles, explosives... what else? Everything which makes death collective, administrative and bureaucratic - all the filth of your progress, in fact - is destroying, little by little, our beautiful traditions of the past.

Religion explains how it is possible to relate to the dead who still live. It says little about how ordinary people should relate to the living who are dead.

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

It quickly becomes clear that having a child in France doesn't require choosing a parenting philsophy.

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.

Each culture defines its own idiosyncracies and then forgets that it has done so.

So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter. (2 Thes. 2:15)

Every place has its little superstitions, and everyone laughs at what the folk across the river think.

Every culture is different, but one thing is always true: the surest way to give offense is to refuse the hospitality of your host.

South Florida, home to shallow traditions and feigned loyalties, fast-buck artists and fly-by-night businesses.

By the fifteenth century, Turkish law enabled a woman to divorce her husband if he failed to provide her with coffee.

More than the secret of the cat had drawn [Ned] to the nursing home. It was Mr. Scully himself. He'd known him, his habits, the things he knew how to do, the way he made his bread, the way he could get a fire started so quickly in the stove, the stories he told, the smile he gave Ned when he poured rum into his own tea, his memories of his long life.

Remember, Christ never broke the written instructions of God. He only broke the traditions of men

Maybe Americans have found it easier to latch on to new traditions because we are uprooted people, and have few deep roots.

One thing that I find very weird here in Australia is Latvians in Australia celebrate Latvian traditions by a calendar, not by the seasons as they do in Latvia. It's a bit strange for me, everyone said a few weeks ago, 'Merry Christmas,' in Latvian, or maybe Winterfest, and here I was sweating like a pig saying, 'Merry Winterfest!' – Viktor Brenners, 2nd Generation DP

So much can be learned from other traditions. In the long history of the Christian church, so many different, even conflicting, points of view have been embraced as true and valuable.

Myths also played a role in national origins stories.

By 1957 97% of all marriageable men and women were married, and if they cared to have a social life, they stayed that way.

The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,