Quotes About Tradition

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance, which expresses all we see, smell, taste, touch, feel, and experience. It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Its a rare thing when a father and son can share the same experience. My father and I have seen all 19 Bond films together, two or three times.

When I played, Old-Timers Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees... It was an out-of-body experience.

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

The United States has a long tradition of preserving the all-American outdoor experience, dating back to the days of President Theodore Roosevelt.

There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.