Tradition Quotes · Page 31

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

— Cosima Spender

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

— Rob Lowe

The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.

— Eddie Murphy

“Men will always create new arenas for honor if traditional rituals fade.”

— Joel Dinerstein

Italians have famously low levels of trust in their government, and a tradition of medical hoaxes.

— Anne Applebaum

No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law.

— Rick Santelli

I have a certain tradition here at the GQ awards. Every year I pick the best-looking man and bestow upon him my…

— Ksenia Sobchak

Duke basketball, that tradition and what it means to the school, is pretty neat.

— Daniel Jones

While it may be impossible to 'disprove' the existence of some 'Higher Power' or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible — through…

— David G. McAfee

Like other parents in this country, we want to give our children the best opportunities, to shower them with love, to teach…

— Jennifer Chrisler

People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was…

— Francis Howgill

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and…

— Terry Eagleton

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the…

— Henry David Thoreau

'Hindu terrorism' is not even a word. By linking Hindu with terrorism, Congress has disrespected the country's culture, tradition, and legacy. It…

— Yogi Adityanath

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition…

— Havelock Ellis

In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick's grandfather's house where they were having the…

— Megan Mullally

The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that…

— David Geffen

It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free…

— Wendy Farley

I know that Arnold Toynby, the great historian, said he had always hoped the religions of the world would evolve until they…

— John Shelby Spong

The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power…

— Michael Pollan

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last…

— Randy Pausch

In the West nowadays, it's very common to talk about the Judeo- Christian tradition. It's a common term. The term is relatively…

— Bernard Lewis

Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the…

— Terri Windling

Rather than trying to recover and maintain a tradition that links back to the past (and former glories), Chaos Magick is an…

— Phil Hine

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.

— Alice Walker

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual…

— Igor Babailov

I hope maybe I'll be in a Christmas movie that becomes part of someone's holiday tradition.

— Lacey Chabert

Tradition and heritage are all dead peoples baggage. Stop carrying it. Move forward.

— Doug Stanhope

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

— Ozwald Boateng

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

— Danny Boyle

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

— Anonymous

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

— Harold Prince

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

— Jack Nicklaus

The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a…

— William R. Ferris

Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all…

— T. S. Eliot

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

— K.P. Yohannan

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...

— Alfred Adler

The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its…

— Sufjan Stevens

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

— Henri Matisse