Tradition Quotes · Page 118

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

— Tommy Morrison

I was raised in public schools, but from the word go, I never believed what the public schools were teaching me. Nor…

— Peter Brook

In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk:…

— Erik Naggum

All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are…

— William Winwood Reade

Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this…

— Parker Palmer

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

— Philip Johnson

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically…

— Alan Menken

It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are…

— Carl Nielsen

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

A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result…

— William Bennett

[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel…

— Jay Michaelson

Voting by mail has a long, venerable tradition in this country, most notably the election of 1864, when 150,000 Union soldiers sent…

— George T. Conway III

I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland.…

— Frans Lanting

I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes…

— Tomas Maier

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the…

— Christopher McDowell

The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who…

— Bell Hooks

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

— Allan Bloom

When I was a kid, my mom tried to adopt a tradition of building a gingerbread house, but it failed miserably.

— Antonia Lofaso

One of my biggest goals in writing the music for 'Fantastic Beasts' was to create memorable melodies. J.K. Rowling's world has always…

— James Newton Howard

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business…

— Lee R. Raymond