Tradition Quotes
I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?
The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy
That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."
We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.
The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.
We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.
If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.
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.
I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.
The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.
There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.
For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.
The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.
The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.
It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.