Community Traditions Quotes

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.

The history of a nation is not in Parliaments and battlefields but in what people say to each other on fair days and high days, and in how they farm and quarrel and go on pilgrimage.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.

Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.

Where I'm from in South Carolina a lot of my friends, a lot of my family members have locks, what we call them. So, you know, it's more of a way of life, where we from, not a hairstyle. We really don't care to have it neat or you know too pretty it's just you know grow your hair. And I wash my hair everyday too.

Where I come from, everyone talks like me. It's working-class Edinburgh.

Being "Jewish" is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.

I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Preparing foods from other Jewish communities is broadening. It's interesting to sample the foods of other Jewish communities and see what they developed.