I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know? — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye. — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether — E. W. Bullinger Copy Share Image
Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up on 'Doctor Who,' and they used to do holiday specials every single year, and it just made me so… — Lachlan Watson Copy Share Image
I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I've written a book entitled 'Islam: the Challenges of Democracy,' because it is a challenge. It requires careful interpretation of the Islamic… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill,… — Sanford Levinson Copy Share Image
When you dig down, people are pretty progressive, by and large. I guess, I've said it many times - that a lot… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
“Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn't get enough of them… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
“A kilt is more than fabric—it’s a love letter to tradition, stitched with the tenderness of history and worn with the devotion… — Haider Ali Shahid Copy Share Image
Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be part of that tradition of French cinema that wasn't really watched by the people of my age.… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
“So,” he throttled shift knob into fifth gear half a block from a stop sign, “you’re from Great Britain.” “Yes. England. The… — Kevin Cole Copy Share Image
