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Quotes About Traditional

it seemed likely to slide them back into the traditional status of servants or slaves, into the older world where labor was merely a painful necessity and not a source of prosperity.
~ Gordon S. Wood
...but Edward Young was a querulous old fashioned dotard...
~ Mr. Whyte, 1792
I prefer books that don't need batteries.
~ Author Unknown
khan's mobile unit of doctors and pharmacists served him a tea made from orange peel, kudzu flowers, ginseng, sandalwood, and cardamom. Sipped on an empty stomach, the tea was guaranteed to overcome a hangover and make the khan fit for another day of hunting, eating, and drinking.
~ Jack Weatherford
the khan's mobile unit of doctors and pharmacists served him a tea made from orange peel, kudzu flowers, ginseng, sandalwood, and cardamom.
~ Jack Weatherford
The wolf said, You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone. Red Riding Hood said, I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid, worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way.
~ James Finn Garner
treating messages as discrete had application not just for traditional communication but for a new and rather esoteric subfield, the theory of computing machines.
~ James Gleick
Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.
~ Kate Winslet
I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.
~ Robert Darnton
A good traditional conceptual instruction is what I got from my better professors at MIT. They would be at a chalkboard, and they would literally be explaining something and working through a problem, but it wasn't rote. They were explaining the underlying theory and processes and intuition behind it.
~ Sal Khan
The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor.
~ Rick Smolan
I enjoyed dressing in Indian clothes. I loved those long, single-piece garments that come down to the knees and the white pyjamas you wear underneath.
~ Michael Portillo
I never had a traditional mentor. I know people who have been successful with a mentor, but I've never understood why I should limit myself to the knowledge and expertise of one person.
~ Adam Neumann
If I really can be said to have a personal style, I think it is reflected in my taste for the exotic and the unexpected. I like to create rooms which are essentially traditional - and then add touches of the bizarre and the delicious.
~ Lee Radziwill
Traditional consumer finance has been unfair for decades. Banks have had a monopoly on financial services and have been able to overcharge and underserve consumers.
~ Taavet Hinrikus
I present classics in an unfamiliar way or unfamiliar ingredients and preparations in a classical way.
~ Wylie Dufresne
Ebola so scary and so unfamiliar, it's really important to outline what the facts are and that we know how to control it. We control it by traditional public health measures. We do that, and Ebola goes away.
~ Tom Frieden
I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
~ Lata Mangeshkar
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
~ Ciaran Hinds
Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women.
~ Amrita Pritam
I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!!
~ Angela Merkel
I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.
~ Jean Liedloff
I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
~ Anna Chancellor
Chelsea is a club I've always had a soft spot for as they have kept faith with playing a traditional strong and physical No. 9.
~ Glenn Murray