Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families… — Bernice Weissbourd Copy Share Image
I have never heard of a tradition among Jews that encourages us to support each others' differences. Quite the contrary. What I've… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm a product of a Notre Dame education; those professors taught me a lot about how you separate the city of God… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I have very eclectic tastes. I love soul and Motown; I listen to some rap - Stormzy, Tinie Tempah, Drake. I also… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
I do think that that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that… — Olivia Culpo Copy Share Image
I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Disney movies have had a tradition of excellent music since the beginning. Some of my favorites are 'Fantasia,' 'Dumbo,' 'The Lion King'… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian… — Bill McCartney Copy Share Image
I like the sensitive look of traditional French films and the fact that the children are often portrayed as rebels, but I… — Celine Sciamma 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
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
There is a tradition of "modernist" theology arising out of post-Kantian thought - Fichte was the real father of it, but Schleiermacher… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
We focus on bringing back Indigenous languages, ceremonies, cultures, traditions - all that was lost over the past 150 years. This is… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success… — Ronald Steel Copy Share Image
When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Nothing about our world is set in stone—we have made it up. Whether it is a tradition that has been passed on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Tradition has to be retaken by the liberal forces, so that they can show their values of tolerance and democracy not as… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
