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Quotes About Traditional

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.
~ Jon Meacham
Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.
~ Jesse James Garrett
The questions of traditional and redefined marriage are highly emotional and a difficult and sensitive topic. Living in the D.C. area and having gay friends and colleagues, I find the topic difficult to discuss and sometimes even difficult write about for fear that I will be judged.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
He kind of makes me ill, David Cameron. I liked the old-fashioned Tory - like Winston Churchill, who had style. But Cameron's like a new breed - computer-generated. I hate it.
~ Pete Doherty
I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'
~ Mike Huckabee
Humanity had to evolve, jump up the ladder until it was on a more equal footing with some of the new minds in the system. This was hard, too. We were behind to start with, and slower to let go of traditional structures than machine intelligences with little or no past. Some of our allies among the AIs despaired of us ever catching up, even with their help. It
~ Sean Williams
I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.
~ Sean Young
Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.
~ Sebastian Junger
Since January of 1895 all his energies and hopes had been concentrated on a symphony based on traditional chants of the Russian Orthodox Service.
~ Sergei Bertensson
Once A. K. Coomaraswamy, the great twentieth-century Indian expert on traditional metaphysics and art, said that in modern society the artist is a special kind of person, while in traditional society every person is a special kind of artist.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was easy to detect the confrontation that was already taking place between traditional and modern elements in the Islamic world.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
A traditional Muslim would see in the bleakness and ugliness of modern industrial society and the ambiance it creates an outward reflection of the darkness within the souls of men who have created this order and who live in it.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
If an apostle is one who builds the kingdom of God by helping govern and administrate the Spirit's activity on earth, why would we limit this role to ministerial positions within the walls of traditional congregations?
~ Shawn Bolz
Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
~ George Edward Moore
I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology.
~ Travis Fimmel
For a start it doesn't much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is not what you say that prompts it, it's simply the fact that you're saying it.
~ Mary Beard
I write on sheepskin and use goose quill pens," said Brother Michael. "My paints are made of earth and plants." "Wow," said Annie.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Members of the 1860 Burke and Wills expedition to cross Australia fell prey to scurvy or starved in part because they refused to eat what the indigenous Australians ate. Bugong-moth abdomen and witchetty grub may sound revolting, but they have as much scurvy-battling vitamin C as the same size serving of cooked spinach, with the additional benefits of potassium, calcium, and zinc.
~ Mary Roach
comparing traditional bouillon with gelatin-based broth. The latter was "more distasteful, more putrescible, less digestible, less nutritious, and . . . moreover, it often brought on diarrhea.
~ Mary Roach
Los órganos son tan ricos en vitaminas, y las plantas comestibles son tan escasas, que los primeros se clasifican, para promover la salud del Ártico, como «carne» y como «frutas y verduras». Una ración del grupo de frutas y verduras según los parámetros de Nirlungayuk es «½ taza de bayas o verduras, o de 60 a 90 gramos de carne de órganos».
~ Mary Roach
the Soviet Union's growing nationalist conservatism based on the glorification of some imaginary peasant class's traditional values.
~ Masha Gessen
The traditional university will surely be gone in fifty years, swept away by technology. Why pay huge fees to spend three years on one campus, earning the right to be paid not very much more in the real world than non-graduates, rather than putting together your own combination of online courses, marked and graded online, using the lectures of the best teachers in the field wherever they happen to be?
~ Matt Ridley