Tradition Quotes · Page 9

“Not when tradition is built upon Truth". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.

— Jacob Collins

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

— Anonymous

I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

— James Hillman

“The youth of America is their oldest tradition.”

— Oscar Wilde

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation...

— Winston Churchill

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

— Jonah Goldberg

We have years of tradition in lucha libre in Mexico.

— Alberto Del Rio

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

— Israel Shenker

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

— Tom G. Palmer

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

— Bill McKibben

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Gujarat is a state which gave shelter to Parsi community who came from Iran; this is not the tradition and heritage of…

— Subramanian Swamy

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

— Albert Einstein

Im not religious, but the tradition, the culture and the history are very important to me.

— Lauren Cohan

Its tradition that brings us memories. Those are memories that we will always have but now we have the oppertunaty to make…

— Someone On Channel 8

Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child…

— Al Gore

The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are…

— Elizabeth Barton

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…

— Louis Kronenberger

“ --- she says it’s a tradition --- which must mean all those things people do that they don’t know why they…

— George Hammond

The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and…

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack…

— Rick Santorum

You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program…

— Richard Morris

A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service…

— John Ralston Saul

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role…

— Terry Eagleton

The novel tradition is the closest thing I have to a religion, and being a part of that tradition means a lot…

— Elif Batuman

God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those…

— John Shelby Spong

Each country has its own particular features, its own traditions that find their reflection today and will find it in future. There…

— Vladimir Putin

Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things…

— Annie Dillard

That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls…

— Nainoa Thompson

Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Chicago Bears tradition speaks for itself.

— Brian Urlacher

“Tradition was the last bastion of fools.”

— Steven Erikson

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

— Mario Andretti

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

— Maxine Kumin

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

— Franz Liszt

Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.

— Gustav Mahler

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.

— Anonymous

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

— Klaus Schulze