Culture Quote by Doug Stanhope

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of…

— Isabel Allende

There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can…

— Ralph Nader

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected…

— Bill Shorten

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I…

— Alan Garner

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often…

— J. C. Ryle

The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be…

— St. Jerome

“The believer is not a slave to fashion. ”

— Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to…

— Joyce Meyer

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale…

— Joyce Giraud

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

— Marcus Samuelsson

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun…

— George W. S. Trow