Quotes About Tradition

There's nothin' in life that's worth doin', if it cain't be done from a horse.

As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.

Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

The facts of life are conservative.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me.

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.