Tradition Quotes · Page 27

I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on…

— Jimmy Page

“Traditions are just nonsense that binds, and whilst the nonsense might take on a different hue, the binding is universal.”

— Vinay Patel

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

— Stephen Crane

Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.

— William J. Clinton

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

— Nicholas Culpeper

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

— Barack Obama

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

— Ben Okri

“Traditions never die” ... They sometimes get a back- seat for convenience, and bloom back at right moment...”

— Anvita Bajpai

[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very…

— Pico Iyer

I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my…

— Anonymous

You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of…

— Vincent Nichols

There used to be a tradition within the Hispanic community that, regardless of your political party, you would support undocumented immigrants. That…

— Jorge Ramos

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states'…

— Richard Cohen

Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was…

— Wangari Maathai

We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to…

— Joseph Goebbels

When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our…

— Nhat Hanh

The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free…

— Wendy Farley

The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that…

— David Geffen

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is…

— Milton Friedman

At AFI, you make three cycle films your first year, and then you make a thesis film your second year, and I…

— Zal Batmanglij

Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced…

— Bruce Hornsby

Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.

— Dalai Lama

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free…

— Edward Snowden

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

— Alex Gibney

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

— Henry James

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

— Allan Bloom

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

— Michael Moriarty

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

— Matthew Desmond

“Assumed understanding based upon religious tradition is the breeding ground for error.”

— Robert G. Paul

Italian style for me is to have a sense of tradition, respect for one's roots, and a sartorial approach.

— Domenico Dolce

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions

— Malala Yousafzai

Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.

— Wylie Dufresne

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

“Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.”

— Henry David Thoreau

The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.

— Jack McDevitt

“The tradition of going to church every day of the week is not an indicator of greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja