Quotes About Tradition

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.

On Onam Day, we wake up early in the morning and have a small pooja at home. After that there is onakkodi, where we exchange clothes with each other.

It's an honor to play in a Thanksgiving Day game and bring excitement to the entire country.

Europe has such an expansive history.

Men were never expected to be monogamous.