Quotes Tagged With :tradition

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted.....

You must stop living under the pressure of the environment and surrounding and culture and tradition.....

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in....

With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard:....

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover,....

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded....

Tell me my little children, what crime has this lizard committed that it must die this evening?” There....

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world,....

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.”Patricia....