Tradition Quotes

I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.

The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.

The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.

Every great tradition has told you that you were created in the image and the likeness of the creative source. That means that you have God potential and power to create your world.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African diaspora, people of this region, and throughout the south.

I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.

Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the character to the performer.

Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is "All the Things You Are," you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure.

He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and doing a show.

I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting.

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your own differently and expands your outlook.

I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in among some of my favorite authors.

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.