Quotes of: Traditions Keyword

And," Amber said, practically drooling as she ogled him, "it's tradition for new arrivals to help with the pep rally." Brooklyn quirked her lips in doubt. "Tradition?" "It's a new tradition," Amber shot back. "Clearly the deeper meaning of the word h...

Death and the Girl Next Door

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

Atlas of the Human Heart

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

John Shelby Spong

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.

Al Franken

India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.

Amish Tripathi

I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.

Eve Ensler

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

N. Scott Momaday

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

Roger Clemens

For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.

Dinesh D'Souza

It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.

Russell Means

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

Pierre Schaeffer

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

Herman Cain

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacr...

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

Laura Schlessinger

The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

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 in traditional Southern American music.

Gillian Welch

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

Jane Smiley

In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.

Lawrence Eagleburger

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Andy Warhol

When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own.

Thich Nhat Hanh