Cultural Practice Quotes

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

I have celebrated Jamai Sasthi before marriage.

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

I was named after my paternal grandmother, my dadi. She died before I was born, which is why my parents named me Amy.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

I was born into wearing hats - it's a family thing - and I wear hats all the time.

I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.

We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.

Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

I haven't been hunting for years. It is just a tradition I grew up with.

Weave sex is a little awkward.