Tradition Quotes · Page 29

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

— Marcus Samuelsson

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

— Jasper Fforde

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

— Philip Pullman

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

— Moses Finley

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

— Mark Shields

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

— John Ashcroft

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

— Zooey Deschanel

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

— Norman Jewison

Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious…

— Dalai Lama

I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt…

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

There's a grand tradition of a lot of interesting stuff that happens to these post-presidents. Especially in this day and age where…

— David Mandel

Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged -…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Midsomer' is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on…

— John Nettles

I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded…

— Joseph Brodsky

I have been able to watch the Clintons and The Clinton Foundation; Al Gore and what he did post-losing the whole Florida…

— David Mandel

Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality,…

— Simon Critchley

I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most…

— Pico Iyer

Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to…

— Russel Honore

The titles of Jesus (son of God, messiah, light of the world, etc.) are not found in the earliest layer of tradition…

— Marcus Borg

Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly…

— Francois-Henri Pinault

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All the old traditions tell us that there is more than one path to the great Goal.. . . The shortest and…

— Emmet Fox

Both Christianity and Islam are logocentric,” he told his students, “meaning they are focused on the Word. In Christian tradition, the Word…

— Dan Brown

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

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

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

— Simon Gray

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

— Jonathan Demme

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

— Bruce Rauner

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

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

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

— Jeff Fortenberry

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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Conchata Ferrell

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

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

— Lyudmila Alexeyeva

I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.

— Maxine Waters