Tradition Quotes

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service.

Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much.

Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.

I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.

[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!

My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part of that tradition.

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.

According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a tradition. I'm just doing them because they're great songs.

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique.

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we saw ourselves as part of a kind of Dada tradition.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.