"Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting."

Tradition,

36

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting."

Exlpore more Tradition quotes

"I felt like I belonged to an ancient tradition of all young people given this same task of finding their own ways through to the futures they wanted for themselves."

Aspen Matis, American Author

Tradition, Youth, Journey, Future

"Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Tradition, History, Past, Life

"Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Tradition, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Humor

"There's always time for arguin' when you're a Fuentes."

Simone Elkeles, American Author

Tradition, Argument, Family, Humor

"Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Tradition, Storytelling, Community, Life

"The yearly tradition of Christmas is bountifully supported - without the need to ever fade."

Eleesha, British Author

Tradition, Christmas, Joy, Celebration

"It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology, palm reading, vastushashtra and others)."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Tradition, Truth, Ignorance, Wisdom, Education

"Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build."

Ferdinand Mount, British Writer

Tradition, Flexibility, Generations, Stability, Traditions

"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

Tradition, Traditions

"The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Tradition, Observation, Childhood, Ritual

Explore more quotes by Mason Cooley

"In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words."

Love

"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."

Soul

"People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art."

Art

"Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice."

People

"A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats."

People

"As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance."

Equality

36

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Tradition quotes

"I felt like I belonged to an ancient tradition of all young people given this same task of finding their own ways through to the futures they wanted for themselves."

"Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet."

"There's always time for arguin' when you're a Fuentes."

"Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller."

"The yearly tradition of Christmas is bountifully supported - without the need to ever fade."

"It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology, palm reading, vastushashtra and others)."

"Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build."

"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."

"The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation."

Explore more quotes by Mason Cooley

"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."

"Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is."

"Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out."

"Art seduces, but does not exploit."

"In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words."

"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."

"People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art."

"Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice."

"A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats."

"As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance."