Tradition Quotes · Page 36

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Tennessee is a program that I thought had a lot of tradition. A program that I thought stood for something.

— Booger McFarland

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

— Michael Sheen

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

— Kenzo Tange

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

— Jon Meacham

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

— Camille Paglia

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.

— Joe Bob Briggs

As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self…

— Nancy Holder

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family…

— Malaika Arora Khan

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

— Elspeth Huxley

There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree.…

— Eduardo Galeano

My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It's my comfort food.…

— Tessa Virtue

You would think that the weapons of a king and queen were perhaps their armies or centuries of tradition but what they…

— Lucy Worsley

Anytime an African-American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison. But that's O.K. I am working in the African-American…

— Colson Whitehead

Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or…

— Tim Wise

I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of,…

— Richard Dawkins

I am a Libertarian. I want to be known as a Libertarian and a Constitutionalist in the tradition of the early James…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a…

— Spiro T. Agnew

Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of…

— Victor Serge

“If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is…

— Anonymous

I don’t claim to know an over-arching ‘Meaning of Life,’ but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be…

— David G. McAfee

To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an…

— Elena Kagan

Star Wars' is more than just a film. It is a cinema tradition in the U.S. and the world.

— Iko Uwais

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

— Satya Nadella

We are trying to make politics more open. It became a Ukrainian tradition to make decisions behind closed doors.

— Vitali Klitschko

“To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.

— Kim Basinger

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

— Thomas Beecham

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

— Arlo Guthrie

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

— John Hodgman

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

— Thomas Hauser

The tradition of Umuganda is a beautiful and inspiring one. It connects people to their surrounds and creates a responsible community.

— Clemantine Wamariya

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“...I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.”

— Gordon Lish

India and Italy have a lot in common, especially the tradition of luxury.

— Marco Bizzarri

Shows like 'All in the Family' and now 'Mom' - there's a tradition of tackling real issues.

— Max Greenfield

“Modernity is kind of a tradition and tradition itself is not a rulebook. It's a dialogue and a dialectical process— just as…

— Sharanya Haridas