84 Movie Quotes about Customs (Sound Clips) - page 3

Last updated on: June 9, 2025

Memorable quotes about customs, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 These people are primitive. Things that are natural to them might shock and horrify you.

Edith Barrett as Mrs. Rand in I Walked with a Zombie

22 Your pardon. I dislike to be touched. An Eastern prejudice.

Boris Karloff as Imhotep in The Mummy (1932)

23 Well, if these are your customers, I'm not so sure I'll take this job.

Sterling Hayden as Johnny Guitar Logan in Johnny Guitar (1954)

24 You know, Jack, back where I come from, they have this quaint old custom. Well, when a guy makes up his mind to marry a girl, he asks her. It's called proposing. -It's the same here. -Did I miss it?

Debra Winger as Joy Davidman in Shadowlands

25 That is the Roman way.

Quote from The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

26 In pagan times, however, these dances were not simply picturesque jigs. They were frenzied rites ending in a sacrifice by which the dancers hoped desperately to win over the goddess of the fields.

Edward Woodward as Sgt. Neil Howie in The Wicker Man (1973)

27 That's the way it's always been with men of power. It's tradition.

Arsenio Hall as Semmi in Coming to America (1988)

28 Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)

29 Dishonor will come to the family. Traditional values will disintegrate.

Quote from Mulan (1998)

30 You're a disgrace to the tradition of Christmas.

Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)