#customs

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bodies #change #climate #customs #empty

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. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#barbarous #christian #civilized #considering #country

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security. ↗

— Kit Bond

#coast guard #customs #federal #federal government #government

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools. ↗

— Bob Filner

#agencies #agents #behavior #border #border patrol

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#correction #creative #customs #encourage #help

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#brings #connection #custom #customs #fatal

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#cargo #containers #customs #dangerous #economic

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#attitudes #countries #customs #exploring #far

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties. ↗

— James Stockdale

#had #i #laws #mean #our

I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#action #always #attitudes #authenticity #based