Quotes About Tradition

Haarlem Village or

At one time, the first step in courtship was asking permission to write to the person who interested your affections,

Steven Pinker dristar sig till och med till att hävda att högre intelligens leder till mer klassiskt liberala attityder, som individualism och frihet framför tradition, auktoritet och kollektivism.

U krš?anstvu doduše poznajemo kultnu anamnezu; no imamo li - barem u za?ecima - doista anamneti?ku kulturu koja kultski spomen muke povezuje s našim povijesnim iskustvima te tako sprje?ava da muka na koncu bude slavljena samo kao od povijesti udaljeni mit?

Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than trade.

Poetry is the mother tongue of the human race, as the garden is older than the ploughed field; painting, than writing; song, than declamation; parables, than logical deduction; barter, than commerce. A deeper sleep was the repose of our most distant ancestors, and their movement was a frenzied dance. Seven days they would sit in the silence of thought or wonder; -- and would open their mouths -- to winged sentences.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race; just as gardening is older than the cultivated field; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables than syllogisms; barter than trade

das Maßnehmen is ein altes Vorurteil, das die Schneider doch nicht hindert, jedes neue G'wand zu verpfuschen.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Life is but a collection of habits.

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.

I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.