Tradition Quotes · Page 25

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

— Amy Adams

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

— Roberto Bolano

I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even…

— Malik Yusef

The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.

— Bill Shuster

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

— T. S. Eliot

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence…

— Grant Hill

If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want…

— Brian Balogh

I'm not religious, but the tradition, the culture and the history are very important to me.

— Lauren Cohan

My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused…

— Dean Spade

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best,…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I don't worry about traditions overmuch. The fact is, I could change my mind as to whether I want something. For one…

— J.D. Robb

I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it…

— Elaine Pagels

Catholicism is so steeped in imagery. It's one of the many reasons Catholicism has given birth to so many great filmmakers compared…

— Scott Derrickson

Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural…

— Stanley Baldwin

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's…

— Henning Mankell

There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out…

— Mike Leigh

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of…

— Albert Ellis

The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which…

— David Bennun

When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president,…

— Tertullian

The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of…

— Jon Pareles

To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…

— Michel Foucault

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those…

— Werner Heisenberg

Every writer owes something to a particular tradition he/she grew up in. But no serious writer - other than the militantly nationalist…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the…

— Al Gore

“Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.

— Wylie Dufresne

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions

— Malala Yousafzai

Italian style for me is to have a sense of tradition, respect for one's roots, and a sartorial approach.

— Domenico Dolce

“Assumed understanding based upon religious tradition is the breeding ground for error.”

— Robert G. Paul

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

— Matthew Desmond

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

— Michael Moriarty

I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll.

— Ed Kowalczyk

“The tradition of going to church every day of the week is not an indicator of greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

— Heywood Broun

The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.

— Jack McDevitt

“Traditions never die” ... They sometimes get a back- seat for convenience, and bloom back at right moment...”

— Anvita Bajpai

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

— Ben Okri

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

— Barack Obama

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

— Nicholas Culpeper