Tradition Quotes · Page 13

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.

— Zac Posen

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

— Max Born

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

— James Luther Adams

I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.

— Brandon Bays

“Religion is about responsibility to a community and a tradition ...”

— Joanna Brooks

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Whatever one thinks of Twitter, the Friday Reads hashtag is kind of a cool tradition.

— James Bernard Frost

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

— Constance Rourke

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is…

— Alice Walker

People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure,…

— Youssou N'Dour

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and…

— Pope Francis

...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in…

— Bill McKibben

Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn't sanction it.…

— Dacia Maraini

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to…

— Matthew Barney

Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the…

— Deepak Chopra

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

“I always encourage them to practice in a way that will help them go back to their own tradition and get re-rooted.…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that…

— T. S. Eliot

The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the…

— Al Gore

Every writer owes something to a particular tradition he/she grew up in. But no serious writer - other than the militantly nationalist…

— Aleksandar Hemon

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those…

— Werner Heisenberg

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It…

— John Barth

It was worth it to serve alongside my brothers and sisters in arms. And it was worth it to be part of…

— Brian Mast

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

— Thom Yorke

I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.

— William Lashner

I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

— Waris Ahluwalia

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

— Tom G. Palmer

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

— Claire Messud

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I…

— Margaret Drabble

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

— Israel Shenker

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

— George Meyer

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

— Thomas a Kempis

Tradition means nothing. It's about what you do tomorrow as a football club, not what you did yesterday.

— Jimmy Hill

I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

— N. T. Wright

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

— Shane MacGowan

By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.

— Walter F. Mondale

Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether

— E. W. Bullinger

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

— Richard Rorty