Tradition Quotes · Page 11

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

— Klaus Schulze

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

— Raza Murad

Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.

— Gustav Mahler

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.

— Anonymous

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

— Franz Liszt

“Tradition was the last bastion of fools.”

— Steven Erikson

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

— Mario Andretti

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

— Maxine Kumin

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

— Thomas Beecham

“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

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

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

— Camille Paglia

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

— Iko Uwais

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

— Joe Bob Briggs

There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start…

— Nicolas Roeg

I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I…

— Alfred Stieglitz

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all…

— Charles Lamb

There's a lot of pride I have coming from Chicago because so many great players have done so many great things in…

— Jahlil Okafor

Airbnb is dedicated to empowering people and communities through healthy tourism, and we have a long tradition of supporting local projects in…

— Nathan Blecharczyk

According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally,…

— Rod Stryker

Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a…

— Mitch Albom

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

— Erwin Schrodinger

I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not…

— Hillary Clinton

All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power,…

— Lewis Hyde

If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary…

— David Friedrich Strauss

Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those…

— Mark Gatiss

Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of…

— L. Ron Hubbard

The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and…

— David Hackett Fischer

Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of…

— Peter Coyote

It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the…

— Henri Michaux

Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.

— Al Franken

“Religion and tradition remain allies in a system that's still perceived to be fair.”

— Michael J. Sullivan

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

— F. Sionil Jose

Boxing is a family tradition. The last five generations down to my dad have been fighters.

— Tommy Morrison

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the…

— Harold Innis

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.”

— Ariel Sabar