Tradition Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

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.

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.

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

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

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Tradition is a prop for social security.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.

We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.

Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.

I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

Tradition is laziness.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.