Tradition Quotes · Page 18

“Sometimes when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.”

— Mitch Albom

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

— Jeffery Deaver

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

— David Gross

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

— Nicolas Cage

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

— Anonymous

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

— Aristophanes

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

— Bong Joon-ho

Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.

— Jared Polis

The ancient traditions, even Christianity, say God is Love. There is symmetry here. The fundamental step where you get into this transcendent…

— Edgar Mitchell

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

— Bill Bradley

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do…

— Ted Kulongoski

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

— Pat Oliphant

Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is…

— Diana Krall

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

— Novak Djokovic

Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a…

— Charles A. Reich

I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and the traditions…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues.…

— Beaumont Newhall

The fact that there are now many entities that may have some loose affiliation with a former core Al Qaeda - or…

— Graham T. Allison

I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates…

— Elif Safak

I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we…

— Peter Greenaway

America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain…

— James Norwood Pratt

I would like people to feel that they've understood something more about Siena than the usual Palio as seen by tourists. It…

— Cosima Spender

If it was in my control, Id still be wearing a Red Sox uniform, because its the place I know, I love.…

— Nomar Garciaparra

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation...

— Elie Wiesel

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

— Ernest Sosa

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

— Chogyam Trungpa

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

— Stefan Molyneux

My daddy - whenever he wanted to teach us a lesson, he'd tell us a story. It's an Old South tradition.

— Leslie Jordan

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

— Philipp Meyer

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

— Irving Kristol

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

— Alethea Kontis

Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the…

— Rod Parsley

For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be…

— Richard Patrick

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

— Jonathan Ive

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

— Giordano Bruno

Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.

— Sean McDermott

There's a certain tradition to the way that you behave in dance, and a certain respect that you give to your elders.

— Neve Campbell

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

— Bjork

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

— Mason Cooley