Quotes About Tradition

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.

My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it even more interesting.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.