Tradition Quotes · Page 35

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I kind of always made it a tradition, whenever Dream Theater played Toronto, to play a Rush cover.

— Mike Portnoy

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

— Richard Rogers

Change does not come easily to our party, in spite of its roots in our country's radical tradition.

— Wes Streeting

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

— Mark Twain

Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach.

— Sakyong Mipham

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The history and tradition of the Rose Bowl, if that doesn't get you excited, I don't know what will.

— Marcus Mariota

I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in…

— Karin Tidbeck

The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here.…

— Katherine Webb

I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its…

— Anoushka Shankar

Tradition sometimes excludes the girl child from inheriting; or single women may not want to be perceived as pursuing too much property.…

— Wangari Maathai

This American right to bear arms with, practically, a Muslim fierceness, sometimes seems as if it must be age-old, an ancient tradition…

— Michael Wolff

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn't have…

— Stephen Curry

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

— Kavita Ramdas

I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to…

— Alfred Molina

When you dig down, people are pretty progressive, by and large. I guess, I've said it many times - that a lot…

— Tom Harkin

It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians,…

— Pat Robertson

Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the…

— Antoni Tapies

“Why should we celebrate These dead men more than the dying? It is not to ring the bell backward Nor is it…

— T.S. Eliot

Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma,…

— Sri Aurobindo

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French…

— Masaharu Morimoto

We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage,…

— Winifred Holtby

Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

— Larry Graham

Tradition matters. To me it's not a limiting force; it's a springboard.

— Chris Thile

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

— Albert Einstein

“No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.”

— Jeff Bezos

Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.

— Trevor Paglen

“If you can't set a better example for progress, don't show disapproval against the worse tradition!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

— Tim Heidecker

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

— Gloria Gaither

A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time.

— Neneh Cherry

“To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is.”

— Blake Snyder

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

— Elie Wiesel

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

— James Agee

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

— David Soul

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

— Diane Glancy

The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.

— Deepak Chopra

Eating together was a big part of my upbringing and a tradition we keep daily amongst the amazing team at Milk Bar.

— Christina Tosi