Quotes of: American-tradition Keyword

The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.

Donald Wuerl

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

Donna Tartt

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

Elie Wiesel

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

E. O. Wilson

We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

Frank Woolley

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

Frans de Waal

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Christopher Lasch

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Ian Mcewan

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

John Catsimatidis

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

Donald A. Norman

The Republicans have a very traditional focus over and over again whether or not it's worked.

Debbie Stabenow

The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.

Eric Braeden

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

Bianca Jagger

Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.

Brent Scowcroft

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

Grant Hill

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

George C. Williams

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

Hanoi Hannah

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

Deepak Chopra

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

Daniel Dennett

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

J. William Fulbright