#traditions

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

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#aside #copy #german #i #i am

What history can do is show that people have to take responsibility for what they activate out of their tradition. It’s not just a given thing one slavishly follows. You have to be accountable. ↗

— Karen L. King

#history #religion #traditions #religion

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#call #consciousness #definition #life #same

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

— Paz Vega

#enjoying #husband #i #little #little things

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#ancient #apparent #aspect #athletics #cities

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions. ↗

— James Welch

#college #community #community college #doing #each

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected. ↗

— Allen West

#cemeteries #country #day #fallen #forgotten

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#deep #describe #driven #even #minds

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#abandoning #anyone #convictions #nor #our