Tradition

“Europe was felt to be their spiritual home, a community of values and traditions.”

“I want to keep the notion of it's a serious business, but I think it's important to keep that notion of where we come from.”

““I felt like changing from the monotonous tunes of the harmonium and the piano, with this western music—everything sounded the same every day, every week. I said, ‘There should be drums here.’””

“We cannot dispossess ourselves of our literary heritage. We speak the English tongue and write in the English language.”

“The struggle between tradition and individual expression is one that takes place in every culture.”

“The Analects and the abacus are inseparable.”

“If my countrymen could fear God, serve God, would we not be able to revive the age of the sage emperors?”

“The idea of yoga in the Indian tradition and especially in Patanjali is the idea of a practice that we can undertake from differing perspectives.”

“The role of the poet has never changed ever since there was poetry.”

“We must show Thai traditional style to the world.”

“We, the Georgian people, have inherited three divine gifts from our ancestors: our motherland, our language and our faith.”

“Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.”

“To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.”

“I have been working on the sarimanok style. This is a design I am trying to improve, revitalize.”

“The Church is its future as much as it is its past.”

“A very important thing to remember is that Christmas is for the family.”

“Am I not preparing for the great object of embellishing the tongue of my fathers?”

“Thus from the beginning of the Church, the community, its traditions and Scripture went together, forming a totality.”