Quotes About Tradition

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

Our lives preserved. How it was and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is.

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

Every country has its sacred culture.

Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.

We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Arthur P. Russell, who was vice president of the New Haven Railroad, and Charles Hiller Innes, commonly accredited as the Republican boss of Boston, and of course called "Charlie," were fairly close to the Northampton senator, and, according to the tradition of the day,{98} in a pinch Innes could deliver Coolidge's vote. Innes testified in 1919 that he received forty thousand dollars in three years from the New Haven Railroad.

In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o'clock.