Tradition Quotes · Page 35

Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.

— Ryan Seacrest

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

We all know how big Liverpool Football Club is. It is a club with a lot of tradition.

— Roberto Firmino

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in…

— Jerry Seinfeld

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

— Albert Schweitzer

He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves

— John Mallory Asher

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

— Trey Anastasio

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and…

— Johnny Otis

Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many…

— Edgar Ramirez

I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate…

— Horace Panter

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think…

— Frank Miller

The Daytona 500 is what it is because of the tradition and history of this great event. People have been coming out…

— Michael Waltrip

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger…

— Richard Whately

In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go…

— Charles Kuralt

Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short…

— Mindy Grossman

This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time.…

— Will Sheff

That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff.…

— Jess Row

I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a…

— Christopher Young

I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the…

— Jed S. Rakoff

We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic…

— John Shelby Spong

It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government…

— Lawrence Lessig

The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent…

— Watchman Nee

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

— Peter Kreeft

Eating together was a big part of my upbringing and a tradition we keep daily amongst the amazing team at Milk Bar.

— Christina Tosi

“The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.”

— Pat Conroy

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

— Dave Heineman

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

— Cate Blanchett

The Champions League and the Premier League are now both huge, but the tradition and history of the FA Cup is still…

— Michael Carrick

“Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetition”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

We have a strong tradition in our country of senior leaders being apolitical, nonpartisan.

— Joseph Dunford

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

— Joyce Carol Oates

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

— Barack Obama

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

— Jacques Barzun

I loved 'Paranormal Activity.' It was one of my favorites before. It was a tradition; my friends and I went every year.

— Kathryn Newton

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain…

— Elizabeth Kostova

It means so much to me that my family went against our tradition for me.

— Sonita Alizadeh

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

— Anonymous