Tradition Quotes · Page 21

One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

— Harold Ford, Jr

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

— Minnie Driver

I suppose there's a particular kind of efficiency about coming from a theatre tradition. You don't make a fuss, and you're cheap.

— Roger Allam

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

— Aaron Allston

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

— Jordan Peterson

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

— Octavio Paz

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called “sucking up to the stars.

— Johnny Carson

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

— Oscar Wilde

Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this…

— Parker Palmer

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the…

— Andy Warhol

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best…

— Judith Martin

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine.…

— Laurie Anderson

Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and…

— Paul Tillich

You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father's last…

— Boonaa Mohammed

The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to…

— T. S. Eliot

The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR…

— F. R. Leavis

“The order never varies. Two slices of bread-and-butter each, and China tea. What a hide-bound couple we must seem, clinging to custom…

— Daphne du Maurier

One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce,…

— Robert Klein

One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable…

— Marlo Thomas

Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is…

— Frantz Fanon

Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and…

— Nina Berberova

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of…

— Karl Marx

Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and…

— Richard Pipes

“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and…

— Grant H. Kester

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

— Cyril Falls

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

— Theodore Bikel

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war,

— Yitzhak Shamir

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

— Hanoi Hannah

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's…

— Van Morrison

The future of British politics is not the pale, male and stale stereotype of tradition. Things are changing for the better.

— Layla Moran

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

— Miller Williams

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

— Gene Robinson

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

— Thomas Yellowtail

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

— Peter Hambleton

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

— Amit Kalantri

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

— Chinua Achebe

[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

— Wassily Kandinsky

There was a tradition of keepers at Anfield to play as a sweeper, going back to Tommy Lawrence under Bill Shankly.

— Bruce Grobbelaar

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

— Arthur Erickson