Tradition Quotes

For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.

Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

Custom is almost a second nature.

There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.

You cannot attain #‎ mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach.

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God.

Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

You know the slow-motion walking shot in "Reservoir Dogs"? That was in the Tommy Udo tradition. That strut, that way of wearing your suit, is what I think gangster chic is.

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.

I make our family traditions a priority.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers.

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project.

People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was attained by walking in the footsteps of people who walked with God.

You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll lose the essence of the country.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them.

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.