Oral Traditions Quotes

#1. What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#2. My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

Alan Garner

#3. Deception, I came to realize, was one of the few remaining oral traditions.

Alex Stone

#4. Oral traditions of the islanders are obsessed with cannibalism; the most inflammatory taunt that could be snarled at an enemy was The flesh of your mother sticks between my teeth.

Jared Diamond

#5. We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all the time in your own room and never see another musician your whole life. We can't understand that in Mali.

Vieux Farka Toure

#6. It is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.

Santha Rama Rau

#7. I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

Cat Deeley

#8. Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

Stephen Jay Gould

#9. I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

William Petty

#10. IMDb is kind of weird, because people can put things on there, but then I can't change it.

Missy Peregrym

#11. A cut scarred where a caress faded away.

R. Scott Bakker

#12. If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

Charles Bukowski

#13. The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

Harold Innis

#14. One Ring. Like stumbling into

Junot Diaz

#15. Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

David Guterson

#16. He never gave up. And he does that for us

Steven Spielberg

#17. I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

Larisa Oleynik

#18. I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

Linus Torvalds

#19. I want to believe every single lie of hers so I can gladly continue living in denial. I love her that fucking much.

Mia Asher

#20. The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.

Kerri Strug

#21. Vas happening Selene?

Liam Payne

#22. Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

Franz Liszt