Tradition Quotes · Page 120

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

— Rick Moody

I listen to many forms of music. And I come from a very particular style and tradition of music, which has certain…

— Anoushka Shankar

In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get…

— Barack Obama

Philly has that tradition of great basketball.

— Jrue Holiday

Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular…

— Wendy Kaminer

The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and…

— Eugene H. Peterson

I have learned a great deal from the theatrical side of Covent Garden. The Paris Opera Ballet is more concerned with technique.…

— Sylvie Guillem

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation…

— Andrzej Wajda

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.

— Peter Singer

From the Fourth Amendment to post-Watergate reforms to the national outcry when Bush's warrantless surveillance was revealed in 2005, the United States…

— Ari Melber

Really, whatever I was seeking and looking into in those days like creative arts, chant, the muse being in touch with the…

— Surya Das

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

— Boozoo Chavis

The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways…

— Khaled Abou El Fadl

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

— Walter Lippmann

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

— Seamus Costello

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best,…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Ever since I started acting, I've always spoken to our people about identity. I've spoken to kids, telling them: "Where do I…

— Adam Beach

There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place…

— Stephen Kendrick

The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial…

— Oliver D. Crisp

The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders…

— Anonymous

The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are…

— Frederick Osborn

Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the…

— Paul Cezanne

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of…

— Ruth Benedict

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

— Jeff Goldblum