Vivienne Westwood Quotes

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

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

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

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

Oh yes. And a great many of them still do.

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

I just love tradition.

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

I find great joy in tradition, and, in fact, I seek it.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

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.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.