Tradition Quotes

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Holiday traditions in my family are really it's all about the kids.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.

A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition.

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.

The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions.

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.

The guru is a tremendous tradition because is a guide, it's a guide to life, and we can guide energetically, we can guide in our thought, we can have a prayer that travels wonderful things.

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

With vampires, there is such a great tradition that you suddenly find yourself a part of. Each generation reinvents what that means to them.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this country against all the odds.

We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.

There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.

New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont.

Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.

Domains like Trade, Technology, Tourism, Talent and Tradition have the power to redefine existing paradigms.

In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.

Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.