"When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day."

-- Chinua Achebe

#One Day Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance.”
“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.”
“If you turn to God once, He will turn to you a million times.”
“And when those bombs went off, there were runners who, after finishing a marathon, kept running for another two miles to the hospital to donate blood. So, here's what I know -- these maniacs may have tried to make life bad for the people of Boston, but all they can ever do, is show just how good those people are.”
“I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.”
“A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.”
“Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.”
“my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.”

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