Quotes About Tradition

Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.

As a kid, the only time I used to get out at night when I was in 9th and 10th standard. The only time I had permission to go out at night was during Navratri because we all used to go play dandiya and garba.

There's the gold standard, and then there's the purple-and-gold standard.

If anything, even though I can play in the sort of standard string-bending style, in the B.B. King mold and all of that, I've always had a great interest in the more primitive playing, the open chord playing, rhythm and figures.

I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.

True small-c conservatives should fight at every turn to preserve basic standards of conduct and institutions that have served our nation well.

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.

I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.

When the Pledge of Allegiance, the songs of this country, anything is played - we should be standing up. Hand over our hearts. Saluting, if you're in the military... That's the way I feel about it. And, that's what I think everybody should do including all the NFL players.

Being a France is great from a heritage standpoint.

I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.

Polo is a quintessentially English sport. It stands for quality and sophistication and is recognised all over the world as such.

Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

I never turn down a drink. Among friends it's always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You'll find that in the Talmud too.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

I think if you have to make sandwiches to get a ring - you should do good things for your man, but I don't think I would do that.

The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.