Perches/habits

Famous quotes containing the words perches and/or habits:

““Hope” is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tunes without the words—
And never stops—at all—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers’ glory—to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)