We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret,… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are looking for somebody we can connect with on the basis of a shared past or a tradition or experience.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static… — Joseph Jastrow Copy Share Image
Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are… — Carl Nielsen Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has developed a concept of ‘living traditions’, which suggests that traditions are entirely distinct from consensus and a… — Svend Brinkmann Copy Share Image
The Tax Court is independent, and its neutrality is not clouded by prosecuting duties. Its procedures assure fair hearings. Its deliberations are… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One reason which I find particularly fascinating about Israel is this. There is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. There is… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition,… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Before we understand how not to hurt, we must contribute to the peacefulness of it all, in that if we participate in… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Coming to know the hidden and forgotten Mother and the marvelous wisdom of the sacred feminine as revealed from every side and… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just,… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And… — David Trimble Copy Share Image
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The tradition and style of the 'New York Times' make it very difficult to have objective coverage of China. If we could… — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy — Seamus Costello Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I’m not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The… — Jean-Claude Biver Copy Share Image
