Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?'… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties,… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used… — George Etherege Copy Share Image
Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned; as, on… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there. — Charlotte Ronson Copy Share Image
We should demand that (Customs and Border Protection) focus on the true priority that we face on the war on terror... Stripping… — David Vitter Copy Share Image
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
