Tradition Quotes - Page 37

• Like other parents in this country, we want to give our children the best opportunities, to shower them with love, to teach them respect and a love for the rich and diverse traditions America has to offer them.

  Jennifer Chrisler

  Country, Children, Opportunity

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• A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, Tantra is by its nature, the understanding that all phenomenal existence, the universe, or cosmos, that we experience is feminine in nature.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spring, Practice, Understanding

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• I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema is best served away from documentary neo-realism. I come from a tradition of post-post-Italian neo-realism in England, where we've produced the best television in the world. But to paraphrase Truffaut, the English have no visual imagination.

  Peter Greenaway

  Italian, Imagination, Cinema

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• The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the Assyrian period

  Thomas L. Thompson

  Biblical, Reflection, Reality

  Thomas L. Thompson (2000). “Early History of the Israelite People: From the Written & Archaeological Sources”, p.422, BRILL

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• If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each.

  John Gierach

  Rocks, Fishing, Trout

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• I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

  Henry Ford

  Mean, History, Giving

  Interview with Charles N. Wheeler in 'Chicago Tribune' 25 May 1916

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• The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

  Richard Rorty

  Important, West, Moral

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• In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a female Deity... female deities were gradually overshadowed by or incorporated into the attributes of a number of male gods, then eclipsed by the ascendance of the single male deity that dominates the Judeo-Christian tradition.

  Judy Chicago

  Christian, Numbers, Principles

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• Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Gratitude, Attitude, Healing

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• My belief is that the various religious traditions have great potential to increase compassion, the sense of caring for one another, and the spirit of reconciliation. However, I believe that a human being, without religious faith, can be a very good person - sincere, a good heart, having a sense of concern for others - without belief in a particular religious faith.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Believe, Heart

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• Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jewels, Giving, Charity

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• To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism

  Eboo Patel

  Heart, People, Pluralism

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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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• Just as the pioneers made the desert blossom as a rose, so too our lives and families will blossom if we follow their example and embrace their traditions. Yes, pioneer faith is needed as much in the world today as in any period of time. Once again, we need to know that heritage. We need to teach it, we need to be proud of it, and we need to preserve it.

  L. Tom Perry

  Rose, Example, Pioneers

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• My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Friday, Kids, Wife

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2008.

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• Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Fashion, Real, Two

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• I have a New Year's tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the process of turning those dreams into reality.

  Rick Steves

  Dream, New Year, Reality

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• One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth.

  Adrienne Rich

  Religious, Law, Giving

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• I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Imagination, Sacred

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.353

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• Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.

  Diane Greene

  Creating, Unity, Belonging

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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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• Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Dream, Memories, Revenge

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• Tradition is a very powerful force.

  John P. Kotter

  Powerful, Force, Very Powerful

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• Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Believe, Research, Normal

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2011). “The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change”, p.234, University of Chicago Press

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• I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

  Theodore Bikel

  Letting Go

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