“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.” Patricia Briggs.” — Demetra Angelis Foustanellas Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors. — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
We have a rich tradition when it comes to Black folk... using their influence to effectuate real change. — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life. — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam,… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
The ancients had a term in the mystical tradition called the Akashic Records, which was suggestive that nature didn't lose it's experience,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Humans have been riding a roller coaster of ups and downs for thousands of years. The yoga tradition, which started at least… — Rajmani Tigunait 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
I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male… — Michael Parkinson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea.… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world,… — George Pell Copy Share Image
These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Creativity is rich with unexpected possibility. Know-how is mere fragmented mechanics which lacks tradition. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Change does not come easily to our party, in spite of its roots in our country's radical tradition. — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
I kind of always made it a tradition, whenever Dream Theater played Toronto, to play a Rush cover. — Mike Portnoy Copy Share Image
Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“but this is the military, and making sense is against service tradition.” — Marko Kloos Copy Share Image
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to… — William Rainey Harper Copy Share Image