#traditions

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american #american movies #appeal #because #deliver

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents. ↗

— Philip Glass

#better #coming #continents #different #different worlds

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#faith #family #freedom #government #i

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#clothed #could #deeper #deeper meaning #each

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange. ↗

— Robert Kegan

#lifestyles #reactions #society #tendencies #traditions

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#carry #compassion #daily #daily lives #forgiveness

The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#goods #indians #people #strong #such

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#atheist #been #believe #both #church

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. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#america #community #ensure #family #hard

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#feels #go #like #our #see