Top 1200 Old Traditions Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

My fan base is really, really young. They're the youngest demographic that you can track on YouTube: 13- to 17-year-old females. But the fan mail that I get in my P.O. box, they're all from moms and from kids who are two years old, three years old, four years old.

Sadly, a lot of our traditions are fading away and theatre can be a great tool to ensure that it doesn't happen.

We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

My mom, who left Iran in 1976, steeped us in the smells, tastes, and traditions of Persian cuisine.

We should train kids in the music and dance of our legends. That's how we can keep the traditions alive.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

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

The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

I believe in blood, soil, and honour; family, homeland, and hamingja; strength, traditions, and courage.

Customs and traditions followed in North and South India are different. But the underlying sentiments are the same.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.

Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

People say, 'You're old.' Old ain't nothing. You've got new cars that break down and old cars that pass them.

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too," laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, "I often cry." The old man nodded, "So do I." But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me." And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. I know what you mean," said the little old man.

It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog. We're the 6 year old our mother lost track of at the mall. We're the 10 year old who get tickled till we wet our pants. We're the 13 year old shy kid with zits. We're the 16 year old no one asked to the prom, and so on. We walk around in the bodies of adults until someone presses the right button and summons up one of those kids.

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

Civilisations which get cut off from their traditions and values do not survive for long.

I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.

Our founders built a new order atop specifically European intellectual traditions.

Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

While I tend to favor styles that are glamorous, old Hollywood by night and very sleek and tailored during the day, I'm mindful of the fact that I'm 27 years old and try not to make that feel dowdy or old.

Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important.

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

Since I was a child I didn't like conforming to the various rules pertaining to rituals and traditions.

Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

All we're doing is going back to what we were: a moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world and to all traditions and people.