Tradition Quotes · Page 10

As kids, we were taught to respect every religion and tradition.

— Raza Murad

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.

— Susan Sontag

I came to Notre Dame to renew the winning tradition.

— Ara Parseghian

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

— Gustav Mahler

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

— Henry James

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

— Thorstein Veblen

The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition.

— Andrew Neil

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put…

— Mark Twain

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

— Scott Adams

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.

— Zac Posen

“Religion is about responsibility to a community and a tradition ...”

— Joanna Brooks

I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.

— Brandon Bays

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

— James Luther Adams

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

— Max Born

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain…

— Joyce Giraud

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes…

— Anonymous

The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing…

— Arto Lindsay

After I removed all the cultural coatings and traditions that disguise each religion, I discovered the soul to be the same in…

— Suzy Kassem

I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid…

— Stephen Chbosky

The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it…

— Susan Sontag

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are…

— Millicent Fenwick

In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a…

— Yitzhak Rabin

“It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic…

— Tom Hiddleston

What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and…

— Harold Bloom

This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense…

— Erwin Schrodinger

As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide…

— Mary Robinson

Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of…

— George Gershwin

Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the…

— Anonymous

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually…

— David Whyte

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

— Barack Obama

“Tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes.”

— Ramsey Campbell

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

— Anthony Daniels

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

— Larry Wall

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

— Winston Churchill

I make our family traditions a priority.

— Martina McBride

“A mistake, committed for a few generations, becomes a tradition.”

— Nitya Prakash

D.C. United are a club rich with tradition and ripe with promise.

— Mark Ingram II