“People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school.” PeopleYearsSchoolRolesYears AgoTraditionMusicalTinyRhymeModernismPopular MusicOral Tradition Author:Campbell McGrath
“Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.” YearsIdeasWarFactsHistoryRecordsImagineWrittenEventsHorrorWeaponsYears AgoTraditionAncientBoxesMythologyInventionInnocentErasTemptingWeaponryPandoraBiological WeaponsOral TraditionPandora's BoxWritten History Author:Adrienne Mayor
“Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.” YearsFirstsUsedSpeakAtheismStreetsPositionMetsCreaturesMarriedYears AgoTraditionAbusePropertyPositive AtheismFiftyTestamentLegislatureSuffrageMarried WomenAlbany Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Humans have been riding a roller coaster of ups and downs for thousands of years. The yoga tradition, which started at least 5,000 years ago and has continued without interruption, has recorded all of the problems that humans face, and the methods and techniques to overcome those problems.” YearsHumansHas BeensProblemFacesYogaYears AgoTraditionOvercomingMethodTechniqueRidingUps & DownsInterruptionsRoller CoasterCoasters Author:Rajmani Tigunait
“The value of "one person, one vote," the value of equality, is a value that was given to us more than 50 years ago as a central part of our constitutional tradition. So, under that principle, we ought to be applying the same standard today that I would have said we should have applied a year ago.” ShouldYearsPersonsSaidTodayValuesGivenPrinciplesOughtStandardsYears AgoTraditionShould HaveVote Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.” FeelsYearsMeanDoeStillsTwoMatterHoursAliveNew YorkHundredYears AgoTraditionTownsFranklin Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.” MenTryingYearsSpiritThreeStarsSpaceWiseWeekSpecialCenturyYears AgoTraditionMy FamilySeasonsDrivingChristmasHolidayLoved OnesMallsParkingChristmas SpiritInspirational ChristmasParking LotChristmas EveFunny ChristmasChristmas ThoughtsHoliday SeasonChristmas TimeFunny Christmas CardShoppersParking SpaceSpecial TimesOld TraditionsThree Wise Men Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
“The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.” PeopleYearsSeaOceanYears AgoTraditionRootsErasHindsightOcean SeaOceans And SeasHigh Seas Author:James Carlton