Robert Delaunay Quotes

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Cultural goods … are the source of the Nation's identity, continuity and development.

The classics should be set in students’ minds so that they become the genes of Chinese national culture.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Change is no threat to culture.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

The past has to inform the present.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

It’s very important that all of us who have bicultural roots retain our culture.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

History is not the past. History is the present. We carry our history with us.