Tradition Quotes · Page 13

The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought…

— Gerhard Richter

Naturally, I was thrilled but being the first year, the Academy Awards had no background or tradition, and it naturally didn’t mean…

— Janet Gaynor

This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time.…

— Will Sheff

Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the…

— Kerry James Marshall

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of…

— Elizabeth George

My daddy - whenever he wanted to teach us a lesson, he'd tell us a story. It's an Old South tradition.

— Leslie Jordan

Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.

— William Butler Yeats

I have a New Year's tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the…

— Rick Steves

Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I find great joy in tradition, and, in fact, I seek it.

— Inbar Lavi

There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions…

— Ralph Nader

[Dr. Constain James] refuted so well the aberrations of Darwinism.... [A system] which is repugnant at once to history, to the tradition…

— Pope Pius IX

A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own…

— Laird Barron

If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's…

— Michael Showalter

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut…

— Wynton Marsalis

If you set up an atmosphere of community and trust, it becomes a tradition. Older team members will establish your credibility with…

— Mike Krzyzewski

Midsomer' is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on…

— John Nettles

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

— Karen Armstrong

Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

— Molly Ivins

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those…

— Robert Fitzgerald

My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It's pretty much family tradition every time we get together for…

— Ailyn Perez

I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain…

— John Ashcroft

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only…

— Louis L'Amour

The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.

— Robert F. Williams

Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly…

— Francois-Henri Pinault