Sally Quinn Quotes

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

I think I'm very old-fashioned.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

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.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

Tradition is a very powerful force.

My life was very Japanese.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.

Having uncritically accepted [Western] culture in everything, we now find we have lost our hold on the autonomous ideals of the Japanese race.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Christian attitudes are still important in a society even if they are no longer connected with belief.

What is a value? Obviously, normal and healthy people are able to appreciate something as a high value for which to live and if necessary, to die, for no other reason than that it was evolved in cultural ritualization and handed down to them by a revered elder.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

A deep meaning resides in old customs.