#customs

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

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#against #anything #customs #extremes #films

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#border patrol #customs #either #foreign #government

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. ↗

— James A. Michener

#better #customs #fear #food #home

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#allow #along #attempt #been #canada

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

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#definite #edited #ever #eyes #institutions

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#any #customs #form #intensive #jews

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. From an anthropologist's view, 'justice' is a search for workable customs. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#justice #society #men

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#barbarism #customs #law #nature #self-centered