Disregard Quote by Alan Dundes Download Open image “Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.” — Alan Dundes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disregard Past Time
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Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters. — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As a country, we like to ignore our past. We don't like to look at it. — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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Nothing is worse than being ignored or disregard by the one you care the most. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
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I sometimes forget that life is fragile. The fact that I have more time to dream my dreams and take my ease is no… — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
