The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature… — Janne Teller Copy Share Image
“Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. But there is no… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities. — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen… — Allen West Copy Share Image
What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Ours is a country with diversified culture and centuries-old tradition, which have to be preserved at any cost. — P. T. Usha Copy Share Image
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power,… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
Beyond that, it gets down to the nuts and bolts of discipline - not a tradition or genre, I don't care about… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me… — Robert Genn 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
In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia… — John Oates Copy Share Image
I have been able to watch the Clintons and The Clinton Foundation; Al Gore and what he did post-losing the whole Florida… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
