Tradition Quotes · Page 12

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

— Stacy Aumonier

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

— Thomas Carlyle

We always watch 'The Polar Express.' I love that movie; that's a very, very nice Christmas tradition that we have.

— Alice Merton

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

— Winston Churchill

When you talk about tradition, and organizations, the Steelers are one of the best in the NFL.

— Bill Cowher

I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.

— Ash Sarkar

I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.

— Franklyn Ajaye

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's…

— Sinead O'Connor

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's…

— Quincy Jones

In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments…

— Jennifer Lee

“In the South, there was a gentle tradition of 'it's only a crime if you get caught doing it.' Sometimes it was…

— C. L. Bevill

It's supposed to feel good to throw a brick at the right people. There is a long tradition of naming and ridiculing…

— John Cusack

When I made my first film I was 25 years old, and that's pretty rare. Being so young my experience and the…

— Celine Sciamma

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition…

— William Glasser

This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western…

— Edward Snowden

While I felt very much a Southerner as a child, being Jewish gave me an outsider's perspective. People look at region in…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Were we to still be circumcising the hood of the female clitoris, we would not have difficulty considering this a continuation of…

— Warren Farrell

Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but…

— Henry David Thoreau

Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing…

— Harold Rosenberg

It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world... The…

— John Shelby Spong

To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make…

— Bertrand Russell

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse.…

— Helen Vendler

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born...

— Aldous Huxley

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

— Robert Dallek

“Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.”

— Alice Albinia

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

— David Fontana

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

— Elie Wiesel

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

— Elie Wiesel

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

— Eugene McCarthy

Its tradition that brings us memories. Those are memories that we will always have but now we have the oppertunaty to make…

— Someone On Channel 8

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

— Mark Twain

Im not religious, but the tradition, the culture and the history are very important to me.

— Lauren Cohan

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

— Albert Einstein

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

— Bill McKibben

Gujarat is a state which gave shelter to Parsi community who came from Iran; this is not the tradition and heritage of…

— Subramanian Swamy

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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

— Scott Adams