Tradition Quotes · Page 21

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

— Anne Waldman

The purpose of VEVO is to continue the tradition of corporations preventing artists from making money on their art.

— Poppy

The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

— Richard Hofstadter

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in whi ch we live is not the exception but…

— Anonymous

Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.

— Debra Granik

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

— Issey Miyake

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon…

— Joseph Fort Newton

There is a tradition of "modernist" theology arising out of post-Kantian thought - Fichte was the real father of it, but Schleiermacher…

— Allen W. Wood

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have…

— David Whyte

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what…

— Aaron Sorkin

The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired…

— Mark Steyn

I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of…

— Gustave Courbet

Midsomer' is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on…

— John Nettles

I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded…

— Joseph Brodsky

Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans…

— Neale Donald Walsch

If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is…

— Adyashanti

Many native cultures believe that the heart is the bridge between Father Sky and Mother Earth. For these traditions, the 'four-chambered heart,'…

— Angeles Arrien

Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal.…

— Mary Alice Monroe

I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how…

— Robert Lopez

In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would…

— Michael Parenti

I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal…

— Agnes Martin

Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer…

— Ann Coulter

The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first…

— Oliver D. Crisp

“Traditions stifle imagination. They are the invisible destroyer of dreams.”

— Jen Fraser

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

— Maynard James Keenan

Here in New Mexico, we have a proud tradition of service and respect for the military.

— Ben Ray Lujan

“The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.”

— Idries Shah

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

— Anonymous

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

— Hosea Ballou

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

— Leo Tolstoy

A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

— Vikas Khanna

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and…

— Paul Fussell

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

— Alfred North Whitehead

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

— David P. Gardner

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

— Daniela Ruah

“Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition.”

— Eric Samuel Timm

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

— Koichi Tanaka