Tradition Quotes · Page 15

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

— Camille Paglia

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

— George Bernard Shaw

The most authentic and hallowed Wiccan tradition is stealing from any source that didn't run away too fast

— Margot Adler

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

— Hillary DePiano

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

— Salvador Dali

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

— Channing Tatum

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

— Michael Novak

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully...

— Haile Selassie

For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age,…

— Thomas Sowell

At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic,…

— Rob Bell

The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great…

— Jasper Fforde

The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are…

— Mina Loy

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense…

— Peter Davison

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes…

— Karla Souza

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of…

— Ruth Benedict

Waiting for someone to propose to you only passes the "Really, it's tradition!" sniff test when both of you think it's the…

— Carolyn Hax

“I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Mormonism is the house whose walls I know best. It is the story I am not abandoning because it is the story…

— Ashley mae Hoiland

Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I…

— Bette Ford

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is…

— Kate Millett

The solution to the nation's problems, depends on the true American achievers. It's people like you, playing by the rules and celebrating…

— Rush Limbaugh

When Europeans came to the New World the first thing they said is, well, Indians don't appreciate property. They're savage. They're backwards.…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Before Kuhn, most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

— Sturgill Simpson

My family, growing up, we really didn't have tradition because my parents divorced when I was 11.

— Angelina Pivarnick

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.

— Roma Downey

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

— Brennan Manning

Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.

— Jean Jaures

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights…

— Anonymous

But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the…

— William Shakespeare

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

— Robbie Williams

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Gloria Steinem

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the…

— Brian Eno

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

— Sangram Singh

Celebrate...the tradition of giving, the beauty of the season and a New Year of peace and happiness.

— Anonymous

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

— Ricky Williams

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

— Debby Boone

The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.

— Donald Wuerl