Quotes About Tradition In Things Fall Apart

#1. And on Ammu's road (to Age and Death) a small, sunny meadow appeared. Copper grass spangled with blue butterflies. Beyond it, an abyss.

Arundhati Roy

#2. Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn't sanction it. It remains the tradition that women are trusted to take care of the children.

Dacia Maraini

#3. If you're an Afghan village leader in a small town down around Kandahar somewhere, and you know that the footprint is getting smaller for your security, and the Taliban saying don't forget, I'm going to be back real soon, who is your loyalty going to go through?

Mike Rogers

#4. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

Jonathan Nolan

#5. Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

Chris Hardwick

#6. Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others.

Franklin Raines

#7. "Please look at me. I missed you. I was so worried about you."
"Really? Which one of us are you talking to?" His attention crosses to Morpheus, who smirks conspiratorially.

A.G. Howard

#8. The trick, my brethren and sisters is to enjoy the journey, traveling hand in hand, in sunshine and storm, as companions who love one another.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#9. I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

Jamie Bell

#10. Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson