Tradition Quotes · Page 17

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

— George Will

I think massage is a very important part of life, which is present from centuries as an imminent part of India's tradition.

— Nargis Fakhri

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

— Sufjan Stevens

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

— Doug Stanhope

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

— Arthur Erickson

There was a tradition of keepers at Anfield to play as a sweeper, going back to Tommy Lawrence under Bill Shankly.

— Bruce Grobbelaar

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

— Wassily Kandinsky

[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

— Oliver D. Crisp

The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own…

— Tariq Ramadan

When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a…

— Sam Amidon

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

— Richard Dawkins

We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success…

— Ronald Steel

You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When…

— Jon Landau

I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Nothing about our world is set in stone—we have made it up. Whether it is a tradition that has been passed on…

— Anonymous

The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of…

— Jon Pareles

The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which…

— David Bennun

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of…

— Albert Ellis

I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that…

— John Renbourn

There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the…

— Edmund Clowney

I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the…

— David Berman

Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors,…

— Origen

Those who like myself, consider themselves to be followers of Buddha, should practice as much as we can. To followers of other…

— Dalai Lama

I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were…

— Wong Kar-wai

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

— Lawren Harris

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake…

— Bob Iger

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

— Ameen Rihani

There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.

— Larry Munson

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Walter Lippmann

America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor.

— Helen Boosalis

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

— Gustav Mahler

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

— Warren Ellis

New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has…

— Santiago Calatrava

There is no rule or tradition in the BJP to forbid leaders to contest polls after they attain the age of 75.

— Amit Shah

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century.

— C.P. Snow

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

— Rashid al-Ghannushi