Cher Quotes

I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him as a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

I am not afraid of new inventions or improvements, nor bigoted to the practices of our forefathers. It is that bigotry which keeps the Indians in a state of barbarism in the midst of the arts and would have kept us in the same state even now

Although the world has undergone many changes, both good and bad, in the past century, change need not imply the loss of traditional values. Nor is progress another word for moral decay. It is not development and progress which jeopardize values and morality but rather the absence of a strong and secure moral foundation developed first and foremost in the family. Surely, it is possible for one to enjoy the conveniences of modern life-airplanes and automobiles, computers and cell phones, microwaves and VCRs-without losing one's sense of values. When we love God, love our families, we can enjoy life without betraying the practices of decency, without abandoning the traditions of our cultures.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

Islam will have no truck with traditionalism, against which it campaigns relentlessly, to break its power over men's minds and eradicate its deep-seated influence.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

… embrace new ideas with energy!

We are living in the jet-age, but we are governed by an Edwardian establishment mentality.

I prefer being around young people. I don't like situations from the past, definitely no nostalgia. I prefer to think of doing everything new with a different generation that has a different mentality.

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

By definition, conservatives struggle with change.

I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.

I'm old-fashioned.

I am quick to adopt new ideas. If there is something good, I will follow it and implement it. I adopted information technology in 1985.

I'm as old-school as it gets in this modern era. I'm the last of a dying breed.

For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.

My vision is a blend of the old school and the new school, but with zero rules.

You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it's old.