Culture Quote by Aaron Allston Download Open image “I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.” — Aaron Allston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Feet Happiness Tradition Wipe
I respect traditions, you can't walk all over them, but at the same time our world is changing. Life is about moving on. — Motsi Mabuse Copy Share Image
I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me. — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it. — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it;… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of… — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
“There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
“You can't measure what a boy did in innocence against what a man has to do for the rest of his life.” — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles — Aaron Allston Copy Share
Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
“When are they going to stop calling me General?" "When are they going to stop calling me Princess?" Han & Leia” — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
“Begging your pardon, sir, but you’re crazy enough to be a Wraith." "Until you’ve crewed with me for a few years, kid, you have… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
“…The Antilles and Horn clans sat at a folding table between two StealthXs, playing what looked like a cutthroat game of sabacc.” — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
