American Tradition Quotes - Page 2

• There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.

  Judith Martin

  Retirement, Organization, Ties

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• It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.

  Pamela Geller

  Freedom, America, Speech

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• Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Sweden, Tradition, My Favorite

  "10 Delicious Thanksgiving Recipes" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2011.

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• The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

  Jennifer Lee

  Turkeys, Childhood, Technique

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• We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

  Lisa Bonet

  Native American, Talking, Uprising

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some kids have never seen what a real tomato looks like off the vine. They don't know where a cucumber comes from. And that really affects the way they view food. So a garden helps them really get their hands dirty, literally, and understand the whole process of where their food comes from. And I wanted them to see just how challenging and rewarding it is to grow your own food, so that they would better understand what our farmers are doing every single day across this country and have an appreciation for ... that American tradition of growing our own food and feeding ourselves.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Children

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• I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our daily lives -- an energy and confidence we call the American spirit. Perhaps because we know we control our own destiny, we believe deep down inside that working together we can make each new year better than the old.

  Ronald Reagan

  New Year, Believe, Destiny

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

  Diane Wakoski

  Writing, Thinking, Political

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• We do Him [God] honor in our pledge of allegiance, in all our public ceremonies. There's nothing wrong with that. It is in the best of American traditions, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. I think we have to fight that tendency of the secularists to impose it on all of us through the Constitution.

  Antonin Scalia

  Fighting, Thinking, Honor

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• Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Government, Effort

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• I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Office, Religion

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• The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Peace, Children

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• Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

  Molly Ivins

  Needs, World, Tradition

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• Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

  George S. Patton

  Mediocrity, Tradition, Walks

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• Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, American West, People

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• Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

  Dan Rather

  Law, United States, Definitions

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

  Ron Paul

  War, Might, Tradition

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• The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It is not based on dogma or a set of beliefs, nor on scriptures or a sacred book revealed by a great man. Witchcraft takes it's teachings from nature, and reads inspiration in the movements of the sun, moon, and stars, the flight of birds, the slow growth of trees, and the cycles of the seasons.

  Starhawk

  Stars, Book, Teaching

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• It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

  Barbra Streisand

  Silly, Successful, Tradition

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• Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.

  Rick Santorum

  Strong, Pride, Vanity

  "Rick Santorum defends Satan speech - by comparing himself to Ronald Reagan" by Toby Harnden, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 22, 2012.

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• Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

  Ariel Gore

  Land, People, Tradition

  Ariel Gore (2003). “Atlas of the Human Heart”, p.19, Seal Press

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• Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government and promoting individual freedom and opportunity. But the facts, while sad, are clear: More Americans today depend more heavily on government than ever before.

  Edwin Feulner

  Opportunity, Government, Self

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• When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

  James Hillman

  Christian, Way, Tradition

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• The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

  Bill Bradley

  Religious, Practice, Atheism

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