Trisha Goddard Quotes

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

Americans are locked into our traditions.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

I don't support gay marriage. I'm just not there, as far as believing in my heart that we should change 2,000 years of social policy in favor of a redefinition of the family.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Culture is more important than politics.

Where a bad custom has been in existence for any length of time, most people grow to regard it as part of the order of nature.

The common man thinks that the marriage is like appointing one to do his work. The husband thinks so! The husband’s family thinks so. Every one thinks that a girl is coming to the family to do work. Even the girl’s family trains the girl to do the household work

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

I have never tried to bear a judgment against my own father because I consider that, in our European culture, one does not judge his parents. Now, I have expressed my disagreements with my father on certain points, disagreements related to the way one should express things, something that has also to do with a difference of generations.