Bourbon Quote by Robert Benchley

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.

— John Lawson

“On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for…

— George Orwell

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their…

— Henry David Thoreau

Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion,…

— Don Edward Beck

Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us…

— Ruth Benedict

The word 'fancy dance' itself to Native communities is going to mean resilience. It's going to mean joy. It's going to mean cultural perpetuity.

— Lily Gladstone

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

— Paul Tsongas

I think our culture is moving forward - slowly. And also, as we move forward, we're witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that…

— RuPaul

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

— Barbara Kingsolver

Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present…

— Flora Thompson

“A heritage that is only self-congratulating and masturbatory is not a heritage at all but rather insipid nostalgia. We cannot afford that; everything must…

— Michael W. Twitty