Tradition Quotes

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.

I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

Come on, Forney.' Novalee, it's a parasite.' But it's a tradition.' It's a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?' Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.

I’m not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity.

Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and economic rights and workers rights.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?