Tradition Quotes · Page 36

It's a great Disney tradition, isn't it? For every single character to die in all their movies.

— Gareth Edwards

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

— Dale Spender

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

— Rowan Williams

I never missed a Sunday lunch growing up and I've continued that tradition with my own family.

— Tess Daly

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

— Robert Casey

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I…

— Rosanne Cash

Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

— Walter Darby Bannard

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional…

— Anonymous

I hardly grew up mono-lingually! I was raised religious, so there's a tradition of semi-access to a second language. When I learned…

— Nathan Englander

I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and being respected in America, and…

— Felicity Jones

Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts…

— David Adjaye

To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan…now enter Maia Sharp.

— Art Garfunkel

For whatever reason, I encounter Canadian whiskey at hunting camps way more often than I do in restaurants, bars, or homes. Could…

— Jonathan Miles

The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your…

— Karen Armstrong

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the…

— Terence McKenna

“When I observe Gram, I see how fragile the notion of tradition can be. If I take my eyes off the way…

— Adriana Trigiani

The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition.…

— Maimonides

If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different…

— Sakyong Mipham

Some people imagine that by returning to tradition, you will renew it. This is not true, for by returning to tradition, you…

— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It…

— Starhawk

I think that one of the things that is happening in the so-called "clash of civilizations" is that the confidence that was…

— James Toback

I can tell you there is no finer stadium to play in. The traditions that they place in that stadium like when…

— Les Miles

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.

— Robert Moss

“That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.”

— Nichole Chase

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

— John Stuart Mill

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

— Anonymous

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

— Elie Wiesel

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

— E. M. Forster

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

— Kenzo Tange

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

— Michael Sheen

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

— Jon Meacham

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

— Ishmael Beah

Tennessee is a program that I thought had a lot of tradition. A program that I thought stood for something.

— Booger McFarland

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics,…

— Sally Rooney