Quotes About Tradition

My roots are Carnatic music. I think everything stems from that.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

Am I feminist? I don't know. I'm not really sure what that is. I am all up for equality to a certain extent, although in the home, I do feel this is where the mother excels and the man needs to step back a bit. My family is from Nigeria, and this is our culture.

Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

My stepfather and his large family - The Crafts - are from Chicago, so Chicago has always been home for me.

When my grandmother passed away in 2014, she left behind some recipes, but nobody stepped forward to follow in her footsteps and become pop-up cookie factories whenever the need arose.

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.

I have trained for 30 years in Indian classical dance and there is nothing more beautiful in my eyes than stepping out of the box.

How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut?

People have often asked me to do a remake of Awara' with Rishi Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor. When I took the idea few steps forward, we all got scared. Where will we get another Prithviraj Kapoor and Raj Kappor? Where will I get composers like Shankar-Jaikishen?

People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened up. With New Orleans and old-time grooves, there's no limit in what can be done with that. I want to break the stereotype of what traditional jazz is.

It is my argument that reversing the meaning of "populist" tells us something important about the people who reversed it: denunciations of populism like the ones we hear so frequently nowadays arise from a long tradition of pessimism about popular sovereignty and democratic participation. And it is that pessimism—that tradition of quasi-aristocratic scorn—that has allowed the paranoid right to flower so abundantly.

Nothing has been venerable or revered merely because it exists or has endured.

For this project I interviewed the Reverend William Barber, Fred Harris, and Jim Hightower, three men who were enormously helpful in explaining the reform tradition and the power of mass movements. There are moments with all of them that I will never forget, but the one I am truly sorry I could not work into the text was when Hightower showed me a framed Texas poll tax receipt from 1964, a memento of a thankfully bygone era.

It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly-branch shone on the old oak wall.

All that was worth handing on died with them; the rest, they put into their books.8

the early Christians venerated the saints, their relics, and sacred images.

Tanizaki's subject requires the shadowy style in which he treats it

Gregory the Great (sixth century), summarizing the Christian contemplative tradition, expressed it as "resting in God." This was the classical meaning of Contemplative Prayer in the Christian tradition for the first sixteen centuries.