Tradition Quotes · Page 22

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

— Doug Stanhope

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

— Sufjan Stevens

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

— Khaled Hosseini

There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.

— Larry Munson

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

— Ameen Rihani

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake…

— Bob Iger

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

— Lawren Harris

I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were…

— Wong Kar-wai

The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to…

— Sterling K. Brown

I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I…

— Aimee Mullins

English football has an enormous following across the world, not just because of the players but because of its history, its tradition,…

— Fernando Torres

“Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add,…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of…

— Richard Hofstadter

You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying,…

— Wendell Berry

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group…

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

Education does not mean knowledge (gyan) only, it also contains a life within it; it is not an arrangement, it is a…

— Narendra Modi

Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean…

— N. T. Wright

This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom,…

— Sun Myung Moon

There's definitely a melancholic ingredient in our concerts in the United States versus in other places. Many times people feel far away…

— Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega

The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this…

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days…

— Mark Lilla

We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send…

— Geneva Overholser

“The question that we need to address is this: What relevance do these ancient traditions have to the experience of a modern…

— Rick Doblin

Just as the pioneers made the desert blossom as a rose, so too our lives and families will blossom if we follow…

— L. Tom Perry

As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.

— Pamela Love

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

— Charles Rosen

I love this country. I love tradition. And I just want to make sure our country's heading in the right direction.

— Ainsley Earhardt

Being a great believer in Scottish tradition, I followed the example of my fellow countrymen and moved to England.

— Rory Bremner

The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.

— Rod Stryker

“Either stick to tradition or see that your inventions be consistent.”

— Horace

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

— George Will

I think massage is a very important part of life, which is present from centuries as an imminent part of India's tradition.

— Nargis Fakhri

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

— Peter Singer

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

— C.D. Wright

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

— Larry Hurtado

Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.

— Jeff Fortenberry

We are our culture and tradition; if there is no culture or tradition we are no one.

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.

— Conchata Ferrell

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

— Lyudmila Alexeyeva