When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is… — Elder Paisios of Mount Athos Copy Share Image
From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally,… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I hardly grew up mono-lingually! I was raised religious, so there's a tradition of semi-access to a second language. When I learned… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a… — Thomas L. Thompson Copy Share Image
My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you… — Don Was Copy Share Image
The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I think New York is working its way into my poems. It takes a while for a place to filter its way… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I had four different colors of hats, one of which was pink. I just got on a roll with the pink hat.… — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and… — Adele Copy Share Image
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There used to be a tradition within the Hispanic community that, regardless of your political party, you would support undocumented immigrants. That… — Jorge Ramos Copy Share Image
I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little… — Paz Vega Copy Share Image
There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image