Tradition Quotes · Page 34

We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

— Barack Obama

I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off.

— Mary Beard

Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in…

— Zubin Mehta

It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.

— Yiyun Li

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

— Mark Twain

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach.

— Sakyong Mipham

Change does not come easily to our party, in spite of its roots in our country's radical tradition.

— Wes Streeting

Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood,…

— Kevin Young

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history,…

— John Adams

It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive…

— Ben H. Winters

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to…

— Oliver D. Crisp

There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll…

— Howard Fineman

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is…

— Michael Ignatieff

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of…

— Henry Steele Commager

Growing up in Luton, we'd always eat on a cloth, placed on the floor of the living room, with no TV allowed.…

— Nadiya Hussain

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass…

— Maya Angelou

So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,…

— Gautama Buddha

By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations… This is the way…

— Newton B. Drury

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

— John Pfahl

The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they…

— Margaret Thatcher

The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it…

— Mary Hunter Austin

I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods…

— Nathan Myhrvold

At home and abroad, military men and women are showing purpose and dedication in defending American ideas. They are performing in our…

— Melvin Laird

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

— Richard Rogers

I kind of always made it a tradition, whenever Dream Theater played Toronto, to play a Rush cover.

— Mike Portnoy

Even though there's a lot of horror from Asia in the American cinematic tradition, I hadn't seen Asians at the center of…

— John Cho

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to…

— William Rainey Harper

“but this is the military, and making sense is against service tradition.”

— Marko Kloos

Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or…

— Marilyn Ferguson

Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you.

— Wayne Dyer

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

— Bruce Springsteen

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

— Suzanne La Follette

I had one of the best nights of my life in a restaurant called Barclay Prime. It was a steak house that…

— Phil Rudd

There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.

— Jonathan Ive

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.

— David Novak

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

— Anonymous

'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.

— Narendra Modi