Tradition Quotes · Page 117

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize…

— Eric Clapton

Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important…

— Sinead O'Connor

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

— Claire Messud

[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be…

— Karl Mannheim

It's just an American tradition to make sure people don't leave hungry. The worst thing is to have them say, 'Great dinner,…

— Tom Douglas

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

— Iko Uwais

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

— Henry David Thoreau

In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And…

— Salman Rushdie

I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Admittedly, our…

— David Crosby

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

— Herman Wouk

You don't get that opportunity everyday to do Le Mans with Porsche, a brand that has so much tradition and history. So…

— Nico Hulkenberg

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.

— Jim Harbaugh

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

— Suzy Kassem

Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and…

— Barton Seaver

Folk singers are the unsung heroes. They keep our tradition and culture alive but don't expect anything in return.

— Devi Sri Prasad

It's a tradition that a writer will try to plant his flag in a certain city and protect that. The way to…

— George Pelecanos

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

— Amy Adams

Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular…

— Jon Landau

At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic,…

— Rob Bell

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

— Donna Tartt

Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to…

— Russel Honore

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

— Pope Benedict XVI

I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be…

— Spalding Gray