Tradition Quotes
An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.
Our tradition in this country has not been to deny health information to interested individuals when they claim that they can handle it and are willing to pay for the cost of getting it.
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.
I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.
Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.
The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.
Tradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights. Happy Christmas to all.
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you.
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.
I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.
I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.
Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.
We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.
First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.
I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.
The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.
In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.
The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.
There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.
There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.
