Top 1200 Old Traditions Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.

I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.

The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive.

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

I respect traditions, you can't walk all over them, but at the same time our world is changing. Life is about moving on.

Traditions are always puzzling to those who don't share them. I'm Jewish, so the idea of a 'perfect family Christmas' is foreign to me.

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

We should never lose sight of the very close link between individual giving and the formation of philanthropic traditions.

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.

Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!

An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.

Other people's traditions look charming and decorative and exotic. They're nice places to visit on holiday, but you wouldn't want to live with one.

Manchester United has a rich heritage and we recognize our responsibility to live up to its great traditions and values.

I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

If you grow up with traditions in your family, it's always nice to be able to get home and have those moments.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

Christians are not in bondage to do things as the world does, and moreover, the traditions and rudiments of men are not necessary to honor God.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

South Africa is really diverse, with many cultures and 11 official languages, so there are lots of different Christmas traditions.

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

We stand in the centre ground of the Labour party and our traditions. The policies we are advocating go right back to the beginning.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.

Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.

Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

We don't really have any big family traditions; just spending time with each other is the most important part.

Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people's expectations.

The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.

The number of industries, communities, habits, traditions, and even interpersonal interactions that Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize is massive.

It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.

The locals are always going to want the traditions to stay alive. I just hope we can do something about them politicians.

To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.

It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.

I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.

Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.

Spain has some of the richest culinary traditions and truly appreciates food that is simply prepared with top-notch ingredients.