Quotes of: Traditional-values Keyword

I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown u...

Alice Waters

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the cri...

Fiona Apple

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness thes...

Dalai Lama

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese societ...

Ai Weiwei

We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.

Chris Abani

I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one's subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism - from the most stylistically 'objective' to the most brazenly opinionated - has any real value unle...

Glenn Greenwald

We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the agápe in their heart. Your value in the cosmos is greater than precious metals or jewels, humans have to potential to take us all into a pe...

Guy T. Simpson Jr.

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becom...

Jonathan Sacks

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you'...

Tony Kushner

The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every electi...

Matt Damon

The author indicts "our culture's rush toward efficiency, speed, quantification, and distraction" and counters with the value of "the time and attention required to find the best words and images and then hold them together in ways that illuminate. T...

Love

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Ninon de L'Enclos

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

David Whyte

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

My family has a Christmas tradition: Every year, they kill my mom.

At Year's End

You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

I don't believe in traditional company structures because the best ideas do not always come from the top.

Jose Andres Puerta

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Salvatore Quasimodo

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

Ted Rall

I don't like all of the contemporary country. I like some of it, but I'm mostly into the traditional style.

Kim Dickens

Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.

Kelly Jones