Oral tradition Quote by Horton Foote Download Open image “I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.” — Horton Foote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Oral tradition South Strong Tradition
In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I… — Shanola Hampton Copy Share Image
I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives… — Gillian Welch Copy Share Image
Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to… — Anna Camp Copy Share Image
There is a long tradition of pungent living in the South. It was wonderful to have that imprinted on me so early in life.… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
The tradition of the South is not urban... I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I definitely feel like people in the South are a little more raw. Our whole swag, the way we talk... When I go to… — Megan Thee Stallion Copy Share Image
Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern. — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
Even as a Southerner, there's only so much corn-pone shucking and jiving about mama-and-gravy talk I can take. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
I have enormous respect for the human being because they're asked to take on a lot. And I don't think there's any easy solution.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place. It sounds… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
Rae Chorze-Fwaz has preserved and passed on their secret meditation techniques in oral tradition from the time of Atlantis until he present day. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Here is an oral tradition, legends passed from mouth to mouth, a communal myth created invariably at the base of the mango tree in… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all… — Vieux Farka Toure Copy Share Image
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind,… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling.… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of… — Adrienne Mayor Copy Share Image
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases,… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“The task of understanding a culture built on the oral tradition is impossible to students steeped in the written tradition. p.55” — Harold A. Innis Copy Share Image
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
