Tradition Quotes · Page 2

Tottenham Hotspur is a great club with a strong tradition and fantastic support, both at home and throughout the world.

— Andre Villas-Boas

My belief is that the various religious traditions have great potential to increase compassion, the sense of caring for one another, and…

— Dalai Lama

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather…

— Robert Kegan

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in…

— Keith Henson

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction…

— James Nachtwey

A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time.

— Neneh Cherry

I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live…

— Karen Armstrong

Before I could lose my courage, I said, "Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?" I…

— Rick Riordan

Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought…

— James Thurber

It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all,…

— John Pfahl

“So,” he throttled shift knob into fifth gear half a block from a stop sign, “you’re from Great Britain.” “Yes. England. The…

— Kevin Cole

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

— Richard Rogers

Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged -…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

— Jacques Barzun

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

— Jon Meacham

A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of…

— Sheldon Harnick

Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have…

— Frederick Lenz

Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma,…

— Sri Aurobindo

By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the…

— Charles R. Morris

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through…

— Ellen DeGeneres

We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many…

— Jay Michaelson

The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and…

— David Hackett Fischer

Many Americans believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and we need to celebrate marriage as the best way to…

— James Lankford

“Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive…

— Iain M. Banks