Tradition Quotes · Page 26

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

— Allan Bloom

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

— Henry James

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

— Alex Gibney

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free…

— Edward Snowden

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.

— Dalai Lama

In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition.

— Stellan Skarsgard

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is…

— Henry Ford

Our hope is to support projects that promote the personal and educational development of young people through creative programs that embrace innovation…

— Elisa Sednaoui

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay…

— Paula McLain

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is…

— Lee Hall

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's…

— Frankie Muniz

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not…

— Spencer Bachus

Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going…

— Michelle Obama

Furthermore, I think there was, in fact, a celebration of Passover in the era of the Judges in which the epic was…

— Frank Moore Cross

The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people…

— Evelyn Lauder

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that…

— T. S. Eliot

“I always encourage them to practice in a way that will help them go back to their own tradition and get re-rooted.…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are…

— William Winwood Reade

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse.…

— Helen Vendler

To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make…

— Bertrand Russell

It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world... The…

— John Shelby Spong

Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing…

— Harold Rosenberg

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but…

— Henry David Thoreau

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

— Elsie de Wolfe

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

— Allen W. Wood

The attacking philosophy is in the walls of Man United. That's tradition; that's history. That's how we play and want to play.

— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

— P. J. Plauger

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

— Oliver D. Crisp

We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants.

— Jose Serrano

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

— Beatrix Potter

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

— Josef Albers

India is a conglomeration of different states with various languages, tradition, and culture for each.

— Vetrimaaran

Obviously the Knicks have so much history and tradition, so to be a part of that is obviously a blessing for sure.

— Julius Randle

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

— Sangram Singh

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the…

— Brian Eno

Celebrate...the tradition of giving, the beauty of the season and a New Year of peace and happiness.

— Anonymous

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

— Ricky Williams

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

— Debby Boone