Tradition Quotes · Page 23

As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.

— Kelvin Sampson

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

— Roy Barnes

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

— Deepak Chopra

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them…

— Moses Finley

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but…

— John Ashcroft

I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.

— Mark Shields

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

— Philip Pullman

I remember embracing our championship tradition, telling our players that this is what we should expect to be; this is what Oklahoma…

— Bob Stoops

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child,…

— Khaled Hosseini

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid…

— Ellen Kushner

I always ask any of the artists that open up if they know 'Family Tradition', since that's my last song in the…

— Hank Williams Jr

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human…

— Mitt Romney

I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of…

— Anne Dudley

We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to…

— Joseph Goebbels

There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when…

— Sam Trammell

The clothing is moving, the external version is moving. Whether the internal version is moving or not it is a different matter.…

— Robert Svoboda

It's such a shame, really, because we were known for our country of saints and scholars, and we grew up with such…

— Katie Taylor

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that…

— Christian Lous Lange

First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a…

— Chantal Akerman

On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his…

— George W. Bush

The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing…

— Elaine Pagels

For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it…

— Chinua Achebe

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

— Jasper Fforde

Everybody loves Wimbledon, with all the tradition and everything else.

— Angelique Kerber

There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.

— Roger Rees

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

— Norman Jewison

One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

— Zooey Deschanel

We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of…

— Bruce Rauner

'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank…

— Jonathan Demme

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

— Simon Gray

I know as a nation we are stronger because of our immigrant tradition.

— Brad Schneider

Tottenham Hotspur is a great club with a strong tradition and fantastic support, both at home and throughout the world.

— Andre Villas-Boas

To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism

— Eboo Patel

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

— C.P. Snow

My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Even if another tradition goes against our own convictions, it has its own reason for being, in the support it provides for…

— Dalai Lama XIV

Through all of our various Christmas traditions, I hope that we are focused first upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Wise men still…

— Russell M. Nelson