Famous quotes containing the words quoted and/or traditions:
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
—Anonymous. quoted in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Feb. 1776 (1791)
“... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)