Tradition Quotes · Page 24

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

— Louis de Bernieres

It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.

— Hooman Majd

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

— Deepak Chopra

“A man in a kilt carries his heritage on his hips and courage in his heart.”

— Haider Ali Bajwa

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

— David Millar

Just to be a part of that Laker tradition is really a dream come true.

— Brook Lopez

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

— Barbra Streisand

It was just an honor for me to be doing the role of Miguel because I identify with him. I grew up…

— Anthony Gonzalez

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was…

— Francis Howgill

Like other parents in this country, we want to give our children the best opportunities, to shower them with love, to teach…

— Jennifer Chrisler

The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and…

— Eugene H. Peterson

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are…

— Alexander Bickel

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in…

— Stanley Elkin

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of…

— Zadie Smith

The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick…

— Dale Jamieson

Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly…

— Francois-Henri Pinault

The titles of Jesus (son of God, messiah, light of the world, etc.) are not found in the earliest layer of tradition…

— Marcus Borg

Both Christianity and Islam are logocentric,” he told his students, “meaning they are focused on the Word. In Christian tradition, the Word…

— Dan Brown

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the…

— John F. Kennedy

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All the old traditions tell us that there is more than one path to the great Goal.. . . The shortest and…

— Emmet Fox

Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women…

— Ann Powers

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

— Todd Haynes

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

I don't want to make films that are constantly pleasing the audience, it is not my tradition.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

— Martin E. Marty

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a…

— Nhat Hanh

People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.

— Clive Rowe

“Tradition is never said to be “God-breathed”[6] and is never exalted to a place of equality with (or supremacy over) the Scriptures.”

— James Robert White

Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was…

— Mary H.K. Choi

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

— Rory Stewart

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

— Jeff Goldblum

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Obviously the Knicks have so much history and tradition, so to be a part of that is obviously a blessing for sure.

— Julius Randle

India is a conglomeration of different states with various languages, tradition, and culture for each.

— Vetrimaaran

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

— Josef Albers

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a…

— Peter Stormare

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

— Candace Pert