I've always had a passion for giving back. It's a family tradition that comes from my devout parents. They were always giving… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“NOEL: And even when I don't stay up until midnight, I still enjoy the tradition of New Year's resolutions. What can I… — Hillary DePiano Copy Share Image
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it. — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew,… — Brooklyn Sudano Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural… — Betty Shabazz Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools. — Hugh Gaitskell Copy Share Image
I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child. — Fred Korematsu Copy Share Image
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka. — Jonah Lomu Copy Share Image
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they… — Margaret Thatcher 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
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
