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
Games were moved to New Year's Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
An important part of leaving and cleaving has to do with abandoning parental beliefs, lifestyles, values, and traditions that are not clearly… — Lou Priolo Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of Dylan's music, per se, but I'm not a hater. I like the American folk music tradition, and… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I travel up and down the country and I've been all around the middle of America for many years. Middle America is… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Judaism is the best basis for democracy. The debate between the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai, the constant debate,… — Benny Gantz Copy Share Image
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think there is a lot of continuity between the Jewish and the Islamic traditions. We know this historically, though people don't… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
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