Tradition Quotes · Page 19

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

— Carine Roitfeld

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

— Laurie Anderson

I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.

— Hubert de Givenchy

It's not in the tradition: not even the schoolkids have hot lunches in Norway. They bring a couple of sandwiches from home.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a…

— Chaske Spencer

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

— Mohammed Arkoun

That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.

— Steve Sabol

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

— Glenn Gould

Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always…

— Heywood Broun

Moving to one show each season will significantly help to simplify many aspects of our business. Maintaining two separate, disconnected calendars has…

— Marco Bizzarri

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels…

— C. S. Lewis

Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the…

— Elizabeth Berg

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families…

— Bernice Weissbourd

I have never heard of a tradition among Jews that encourages us to support each others' differences. Quite the contrary. What I've…

— Irena Klepfisz

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions…

— George W. Bush

The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever…

— Colin Powell

If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings…

— George Perle

Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both…

— Michel Foucault

I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic…

— Bruce Babbitt

People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to…

— Julian Barratt

Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he…

— George Eliot

Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas.…

— Brian Boyd

I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds…

— Aleksandra Mir

[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be…

— Karl Mannheim

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

— Terence McKenna

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

— Ken Livingstone

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

— George Strait

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

— Daniel Dennett

The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.

— Rod Stryker

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.

— Rod Stryker

“Trying to plan for the future without knowing the past is like trying to plant cut flowers.”

— David Boorstin

I think Hong Kong has always had this tradition of custom-made suits, which I've never done but love the idea of.

— Nick Wooster

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

— David First

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

— Sun Ra

I see myself as coming out of a trans tradition. There's a number of trans writers before me who wrote great novels.

— Torrey Peters

Manchester United was a club with great traditions, traditions where they tended to pick British managers. That tradition has now gone.

— David Moyes

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

— Mason Cooley

We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.

— Federica Mogherini

There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten…

— John Prendergast

There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.

— Donald Judd