Customs Quotes

252 quotes by 216 authors

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a… — Rudolf Arnheim
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture. — Richard Leakey
The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as… — Azim Premji
My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture… — Mo Yan
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… — Frederick Lenz
If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do not generally view… — Ronald Ross
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter,… — Albert Einstein
Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man. — Arlo Guthrie
In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and… — Jeff Hawkins
Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers. — Robert A. Heinlein
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is… — William C. Brown
As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold. — Vayalar Ravi
In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp! — Kerry King
The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts.… — Mary Barnett Gilson
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation. — Charles W. Chesnutt
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living… — Gustave Courbet
No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and… — Guru Nanak
Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle… — Daniel Pipes
By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate… — Douglas Hyde

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