Tradition Quotes · Page 16

In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.

— Thomas Yellowtail

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

— Gene Robinson

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

— Miller Williams

The future of British politics is not the pale, male and stale stereotype of tradition. Things are changing for the better.

— Layla Moran

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

— Chinua Achebe

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

— Amit Kalantri

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

— Peter Hambleton

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Paul Cezanne

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This…

— Albert Einstein

Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way…

— Richard Dawkins

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have…

— Alvin Leung

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of…

— John F. Kennedy

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that…

— Donald Wuerl

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's…

— Camilla Lackberg

Most all of my awards are at the Country Music Hall of Fame. You know we had the longest running exhibit in…

— Hank Williams Jr

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that…

— Christian Lous Lange

It's such a shame, really, because we were known for our country of saints and scholars, and we grew up with such…

— Katie Taylor

The clothing is moving, the external version is moving. Whether the internal version is moving or not it is a different matter.…

— Robert Svoboda

There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when…

— Sam Trammell

Just as the pioneers made the desert blossom as a rose, so too our lives and families will blossom if we follow…

— L. Tom Perry

“The question that we need to address is this: What relevance do these ancient traditions have to the experience of a modern…

— Rick Doblin

To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…

— Michel Foucault

When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president,…

— Tertullian

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called “sucking up to the stars.

— Johnny Carson

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

— Octavio Paz

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

— Jordan Peterson

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

— Aaron Allston

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's…

— Van Morrison

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

— Hanoi Hannah

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war,

— Yitzhak Shamir

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

— Theodore Bikel

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

— Cyril Falls

“Either stick to tradition or see that your inventions be consistent.”

— Horace

Being a great believer in Scottish tradition, I followed the example of my fellow countrymen and moved to England.

— Rory Bremner

The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.

— Rod Stryker

I love this country. I love tradition. And I just want to make sure our country's heading in the right direction.

— Ainsley Earhardt

As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.

— Pamela Love

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

— Charles Rosen

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

— Peter Singer