Quotes of Traditional - somelinesforyou

“ Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements. ”

- Mark Dayton

“ I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman. ”

- Sandra Cisneros

“ Clinton will always have a special place of honor in the conservative pantheon of enemies. He has really been a thorn in the side of Republicans for eight years. I think conservatives dislike Bill Clinton in a way that they never disliked Al Gore or with a passion they never felt for Gore. ”

- Tucker Carlson

“ Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. ”

- John Major

“ A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. ”

- Woodrow Wilson

“ With traditional notions of privacy being eviscerated almost daily, a new paradigm in political rhetoric rapidly is emerging. ”

- Ellen Warren

“ We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing. ”

- River Phoenix

“ Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately. ”

- Graham Nash

“ There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull. ”

- Sinclair Lewis

“ That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ My objects, maybe not in a traditional sense art, last longer than you or myself. Maybe they'll die off as art, but they are equipped to outsurvive us physically. ”

- Jeff Koons

“ A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. ”

- Mort Sahl

“ What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. ”

- Betty Friedan

“ I don't know what they are going to be, but they are going to be historic. ”

- Jerry Lewis

“ I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense. ”

- Daniel Okrent

“ I think probably on the Republican side with some of the conservatives. ”

- Orrin Hatch

“ This is the moment for which the conservative legal movement has been waiting for two decades,... There was no reason for him to choose anyone but one of these outstanding conservatives. ”

- David Frum

“ I'm actually quite conservative. ”

- Peta Wilson

“ We must merge our traditional sense of schooling with the real world. What we do in school must not insult the child's past but must build upon his past and encourage future learning. ”

- Sigmund Boloz

“ Without any inhibitions of any kind I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom. ”

- John Curtin

“ A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional… values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was. ”

- Paris Hilton

“ Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. ”

- Alfred Jules Ayer

“ The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release. ”

- Naveen Andrews

“ Playing those traditional types of ultra-masculine and ultra-feminine roles has led people into a terrible mess. ”

- Alan Bates
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