Nancy Holder Quotes

As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation.

Nancy Holder

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• Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Tradition
  • Stronger
  • Indians

• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • Tradition

• My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Tradition

• I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Story

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and being respected in America, and I've always liked Kate Winslet and her work and respected her.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • America
  • Tradition

• I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Night
  • Religious
  • Summer

• All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Art
  • History
  • Tradition

• Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Long
  • Die
  • Religious

• Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Death
  • Speak
  • Tradition

• You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Rules
  • Tradition
  • Demolish

• Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush... there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Done

• I started playing polo when I was nine years old. I'm from Argentina, so in Argentina polo is more of a common thing. We have a lot of horses and a polo tradition and it's something that goes from generation to generation.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Horse
  • Common
  • Tradition

• The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Important
  • War
  • Tradition

• Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

  

  Kader Abdolah
  • Life
  • Path
  • Tradition

• Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Ignorance
  • Tradition
  • Prejudice

• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Madness
  • Existed
  • Great Minds

• When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial expediency, and personal preference than they do to what the Bible teaches.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Culture
  • Christian
  • Vote

• Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Taken
  • Evil
  • Progress

• Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Study
  • Create
  • Often

• Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Wanted

• As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation.

  

  Nancy Holder
  • Tradition
  • Existed
  • Exaltation