Tradition Quotes

As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.

Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.

Shambhala is a tradition where there were rulers, kings, and powerful people who actually were very benevolent and kind. They got things done, and they didn't abandon their tradition.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world.

The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.

Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.

Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.

I am very true to the proud tradition of the old school wrestling that I was brought up on. I am very blessed to be able to live out my dreams, and I have a great respect for the business.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.