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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
I lived for 30 years in the U.S., but always kept my Islamic and Iranian culture and customs... even now, western lifestyle feels strange to me.
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.
Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.
In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.
Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.
Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.
I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.
There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.
I have great respect for Oklahoma's tribal members, and I celebrate their traditions and culture.
The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.
There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.
They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception.
I'm Punjabi and speak Punjabi fluently and know all the Indian customs and everything.
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.
I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.'
Increasing detection and enforcement at points of entry means hiring new Customs officers and purchasing more equipment to screen vehicles for contraband.
The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.
Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions.
I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.
No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law.
If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.
I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than in ours.
The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.
By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.
The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.
Turkey has a customs union with the E.U. - it still means there are checks on the border between Turkey and the E.U.
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?
The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.
We think it is possible to get the benefits of a customs union but still have the flexibility for the U.K. to pursue an independent trade policy on top of that with other countries outside the E.U.
Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.
We are under attack. Our culture, society, traditions, and way of life are at risk.
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
One of the reasons people voted to leave the E.U. is so that we could have the freedom to strike trade deals with countries outside the E.U. Staying locked into the customs union prevents this.
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.
Tapas is one of the world's most civilised drinking and eating traditions.
All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.
What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.
I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.
