Tradition Quotes · Page 20

Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian…

— Paul Allen

“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right .”

— Brandon Sanderson

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

— Franz Grillparzer

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

— Asger Jorn

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

— Frank Herbert

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the…

— Joseph Jacobs

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

— Timothy Keller

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing…

— Allegra Goodman

We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be…

— John Hickenlooper

Disney movies have had a tradition of excellent music since the beginning. Some of my favorites are 'Fantasia,' 'Dumbo,' 'The Lion King'…

— James Newton Howard

My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of…

— Shahzia Sikander

When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or…

— Sophie Hannah

For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian…

— Bill McCartney

I like the sensitive look of traditional French films and the fact that the children are often portrayed as rebels, but I…

— Celine Sciamma

We focus on bringing back Indigenous languages, ceremonies, cultures, traditions - all that was lost over the past 150 years. This is…

— Perry Bellegarde

The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People…

— Eavan Boland

Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved…

— Dave Barry

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction:…

— Samuel Johnson

We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it…

— Wilfrid Laurier

I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be…

— Spalding Gray

Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals…

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into…

— Laura Lippman

I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our…

— Ronald Reagan

“a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.”

— Sister Nivedita

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

— Jefferson Davis

I respect and understand that golf is enveloped in tradition and that certain rules and regulations must be upheld.

— Paige Spiranac

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

— Daniela Ruah

Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.

— Dominic Cummings

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

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.

— Billy Graham

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

— Woodrow Wilson

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

— Herman Wouk

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions,

— Staffan de Mistura

I announced my retirement as early as I did because I felt it was in the Celtics' tradition.

— John Havlicek

I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

— Nina Hagen

For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.

— Robert Lepage

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

— Hisham Matar

“that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition…. "Then”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is a very strong theatre-going tradition in Moscow. It has stayed strong.

— Dasha Zhukova