Tradition Quotes · Page 58

The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason…

— Hillary Clinton

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any…

— James Dean

“Come on, Forney.' Novalee, it's a parasite.' But it's a tradition.' It's a parasite! And you expect people to stand under it…

— Billie Letts

Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't…

— Christopher Moore

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes…

— Albert Einstein

Chicago is complicated and complex and very violent but also very rich with history and tradition and art and culture - it's…

— Vic Mensa

The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the…

— Ted Nelson

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s…

— Steven Chu

Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of…

— Mary Karr

The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all…

— Roy Lichtenstein

There's a way in which all of these grazers at the spirituality buffet are performing a service, because you could argue that…

— Wendy Kaminer

In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

“When Sweetu wasn’t being reduced to merely existing as a bride, as a piece of meat to be handled and prodded, to…

— Scaachi Koul

The tradition, particularly in old-school British detective things, is everybody's in the drawing room or the library, and they're all gathered, and…

— Chris Chibnall

I'm delighted to carry on in the tradition of the great reporters like Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle, and Geraldo Rivera to…

— Al Madrigal

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this,…

— Eckhart Tolle

The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to…

— Tommy Lee

What I'd like to see developing is an American radicalism, libertarian in character, which relies, however weak, faint, and even mythic these…

— Murray Bookchin

There actually had been a tradition within English music of the '60s of people looking eastwards, maybe in quite a naïve way,…

— Justin Adams

The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation's interests and enforcing its laws…

— Raymond Kethledge

The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment…

— Herbert Spencer

The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this…

— Henri Pirenne

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the…

— Anita Diament

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it…

— Anonymous

My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned…

— Rakesh Sharma

Doing meditation you may need to experiment to discover what kinds of thoughts are best for your own unique interests and situation.…

— Tim McCarthy

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

— Paul Tillich

There's a long tradition of teen comedies where the kids are getting drunk on beer and whatever else, so smoking a joint…

— James Franco

Modern Indian woman is not one who speaks in English or one who wears modern clothes but she is the one who…

— Soha Ali Khan

There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason -…

— Dalai Lama

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose…

— Bernard Lewis

In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were…

— PSY

The Liberal Party is and always has been an amalgam between the conservative and the liberal with a small L traditions. And…

— Malcolm Turnbull

There's no tradition today except initials, 'CSI,' 'NCIS,' all the rest. Even with reruns today, people don't know there was a 'Dick…

— Bill Cosby

There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man…

— Jonathan Meades