Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.
– Alice Albinia
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- When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously. – Nalo Hopkinson
- Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself. – Gregory Woods
- When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all. – Mark Crispin Miller
- Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all. – Mark Crispin Miller
- He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories. – Alan Hollinghurst
- You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that’s a lie, and you know it. – John Green
- A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking. – Michael R LeGault
- Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last. – Jill Telford
- Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind. – Jo Baker
- Peace can be fragile and peace can be ugly and peace can be wrong. Peace built on lies is no peace at all. – Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
- You must stop living under the pressure of the environment and surrounding and culture and tradition. – Sunday Adelaja
- As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging. – Lundy Bancroft
- Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future… – Neil Gaiman
- God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses. – Shannon L Alder
- Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. – Jorge Luis Borges
- A foundation built upon trust will accomplish more than a foundation built upon worry. – KR Royal
- The last trillion-dollar industry was built on a code of 1s and 0s. The next will be built on our own genetic code. – Alec J Ross
- …the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world. t – John Green
- Noah got a word from God then built upon that word. Then when the storm came he stood on what he built according to the word of God! – Joe Joe Dawson
- We are all either conditioned by belief system or consciousness. Belief system is built through the world, consciousness is built from within. – Matthew Donnelly
- Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don’t build themselves. So YOU must build your home – Fela Durotoye
- Bridges are built not to cross over it but it is built to lift you to the other side safely. – Edwin Lawrence
- …the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world. – John Green
- In war, our elders may give the orders…but it is the young who have to fight. – TH White
- Then I guess we have a problem-¦because this man, Luhan Kane, is under arrest by decree of the Elders’ Circle. My authority outweighs yours. – SR Crawford
- Extend your commitment to your family members. Have respect for elders and be nice to them.they are your soft pillow – Kishore Bansal
- Elders in the dark see better than children in the light. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature’s unpredictable creatures. – Achy Obejas
- Children teach us more than our elders because they are real reflector of our society. – Nature Shreshtha
- Children teach us more than our elders because they are a real reflector of our society. – Nature Shreshtha
- One of the things I enjoy about being young is learning from my elders without them giving direct advise. – Unarine Ramaru
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin
- Respect the young and chastise your elders. It’s about time the world was set aright. – Vera Nazarian
- Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. – Chinua Achebe
- the most weird things about elders, they learned it on a quiet younger age & don’t want us to. – Srinivas Shenoy
- Don’t make me Alice-nap you, Alice. Because you know I can carry you. – Elle Lothlorien
- A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me. – Thomm Quackenbush
- Not to take one’s own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture. – Alice Miller
- We humans are different–our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling. – Mira Bartok