Tradition Quotes · Page 16

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

— Candace Pert

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a…

— Peter Stormare

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

— Josef Albers

India is a conglomeration of different states with various languages, tradition, and culture for each.

— Vetrimaaran

Obviously the Knicks have so much history and tradition, so to be a part of that is obviously a blessing for sure.

— Julius Randle

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

— P. J. Plauger

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

— Oliver D. Crisp

We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants.

— Jose Serrano

Ever since I started acting, I've always spoken to our people about identity. I've spoken to kids, telling them: "Where do I…

— Adam Beach

Many analysts compare Turkey with countries in the Middle East, but I think we need to compare it with Russia. Both countries…

— Elif Safak

The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a…

— John Mearsheimer

I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on…

— Eve Ensler

I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of…

— Bill Cowher

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said…

— Norman Lamm

Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there…

— Neale Donald Walsch

There seems to be something poetically that doesn't work or is limiting when you call God 'God' in a poem. When I…

— Kevin Hart

I traveled around America and then at nineteen, went to Europe and hitchhiked from London to the Himalayas in India. I studied…

— Radhanath Swami

The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part…

— Deepak Chopra

A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of its tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good,…

— Maya Tiwari

We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the…

— Christopher Dawson

I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's…

— Terry Teachout

The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes…

— Daniel Dennett

Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some…

— Hilaire Belloc

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Beatrix Potter

In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition.

— Stellan Skarsgard

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is…

— Henry Ford

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

— Elsie de Wolfe

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

— Allen W. Wood

The attacking philosophy is in the walls of Man United. That's tradition; that's history. That's how we play and want to play.

— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

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

— Giuseppe Mazzini

“A man in a kilt carries his heritage on his hips and courage in his heart.”

— Haider Ali Bajwa

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

— Deepak Chopra

It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.

— Hooman Majd

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

— Louis de Bernieres

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

— Noam Chomsky

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Allan Bloom

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

— Nancy Pelosi