The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.
I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.
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.
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. Love, and you will know the blessings of it. Keep away from the authority who tells you what love is and what it is not. No authority knows and he who knows cannot tell. Love, and there is understanding.
I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.
I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.
Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop.
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U. S. from Sweden.
I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.
Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.