Tradition Quotes

In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.

The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.

Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.

The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and recharge.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

It's an honor to walk in the footsteps of a legend. As host I intend to honor the tradition of The Bob Hope Classic and have a great time blazing a new path.

All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.

Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.

Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I'm comfortable in this church.

I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.