Top 1200 American Tradition Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I want to say unequivocally that while I cherish every person who comes from anywhere, who comes here legally and seeks to pursue happiness, and I hope all of them decide to stay and become American citizens, but I want them to become American. And part of becoming American involved English. It is vital historically to assert and establish that English is the common language at the heart of our civilization.

Turkey has a long, proud democratic tradition.

The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.

Each country is strong on some tradition.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.

We have a great tradition of bodybuilding in the United States.

I have the highest respect for Obama. I have worked with 10 American presidents, both Republicans and Democrats. As far as Israeli security is concerned, he has done the most that an American president can do.

The American people are happy to help small businesses grow, but paying fines for multi-millionaires, subsidizing bad behavior, should not be the responsibility of American taxpayers.

Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement, torture, Guantanamo Bay and any other social and political issues related to the American society not directly connected to Islam? American Muslims must speak out and be involved as well in international policies and, through their institutions, they should raise their voice. This is the way you serve the community.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because of my features, sometimes even American, as I have a slight American accent when I speak English.

I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.

When my French side thinks of 'bohemian,' it imagines Montparnasse authors and absinthe - that kind of aesthetic. The American definition might be more tied to American history and culture.

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.

All I'm interested in is liberating sound beyond all tradition.

Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.

Long Island has a great boxing tradition.

Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [Barack Obama] who has sliced and diced the electorate, pitting American against American for political purposes.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

The American people know that our economy is struggling right now, partly because of the debt that is impacting American families, hardworking taxpayers all across this country.

I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got the best of both British and American television and books, science fiction and fantasy, and so on. So I'm familiar with a lot of, for example, American books and television that a British author of my generation might not be.

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

I find great joy in tradition, and, in fact, I seek it.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.

Most seasonings are based on family tradition.

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.

The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

The producers, the creators, and the cast, we recognize that 'Hamilton' is an inherently American story told by the definition of an American community; we are men and women of different colors, creeds, and orientations.

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

We have years of tradition in lucha libre in Mexico.

I think when you have so many people working for American-based think tanks and American-based defense companies, there is always going to be a bent towards proposing American-led solutions for foreign problems. People get paid big money in Washington to come up with ways that America can fix problems overseas, and they are not always right.

Tradition in fashion is held with such a high regard.

American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ are an authentic document or a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do control the world.