Bill O'Reilly Quotes

In the stable periods of history, meaning was supplied in the context of a coherent community and traditionally prescribed patterns of culture. Today we cannot count on any such inheritance.

I grew up in a very cultural household, but part of our culture is that we don't really take photos.

Americans are locked into our traditions.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

It’s very important that all of us who have bicultural roots retain our culture.

The politics of traditionalisation and the celebration of Islam as a component of national identities have thwarted the possibilities of modernizing tools of thought and institutions

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

Custom is our nature …

The technical progress of the last half-century has transformed our country in countless ways. But, fortunately, we have continued to keep our own customs and culture. It is up to us now, more than ever, in shaping our new country, to achieve a consolidation, in which neither the rapid progress of recent years, nor the age-old customs of our forefathers, are lost or diminished, but rather fused into a new national characteristic in which the best is preserved, while the worst may be thrown away.

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

You like to think that you're bigger than your traditions and customs, but they form who you are.

We have a unique culture.

Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.

I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.