Tradition Quotes · Page 17

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

— Franz Marc

Simon is clearly in the tradition of romantic archetypes, your Darcys, your Heathcliffes.

— Rege-Jean Page

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

— Jeff Goldblum

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

— Rory Stewart

Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was…

— Mary H.K. Choi

“Tradition is never said to be “God-breathed”[6] and is never exalted to a place of equality with (or supremacy over) the Scriptures.”

— James Robert White

People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.

— Clive Rowe

Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work…

— Richard Dawkins

I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West,…

— Cornel West

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what…

— Noam Chomsky

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one…

— Etgar Keret

In Holland we have always viewed Villa as an important club with a tradition of being powerful in Europe when I was…

— Ronald Koeman

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have…

— Eamon de Valera

Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances,…

— Mark Kurlansky

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and…

— Lawren Harris

The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history... Two primary objectives of the residential schools…

— Stephen Harper

The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who…

— Bell Hooks

If you’re a long-time Thor fan you know there’s kind of a tradition from time to time of somebody else picking up…

— Jason Aaron

It's true that to speak of an ethic of giftedness, which is very much the ethic that I deploy in raising questions…

— Michael Sandel

I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of…

— Kaskade

This is a serious problem of major concern, and we have got to approach it in a way that is consistent with…

— Janet Reno

The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical…

— Ahmed Rashid

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a…

— Nhat Hanh

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

— Martin E. Marty

I don't want to make films that are constantly pleasing the audience, it is not my tradition.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

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

— Todd Haynes

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

— Barbra Streisand

Just to be a part of that Laker tradition is really a dream come true.

— Brook Lopez

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

— David Millar

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

— Felix Riesenberg

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

— Greg Graffin

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

— Susan Meiselas

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

— Emeril Lagasse

People have converted - and all because they've fallen in love with the richness, the depth and the tradition of the Catholic…

— Jonathan Roumie

“From now on, every Christmas, let's have a tradition where we eat soup out of a can by the fire.”

— Cindi Madsen

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

— Laura Nyro

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of…

— Sharad Pawar