Tradition Quotes · Page 10

“tradition is only democracy extended through time.”

— G.K. Chesterton

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

— T. S. Eliot

Day of Absence is a tradition at Evergreen.

— Bret Weinstein

Selling out Saudi women is an old-established tradition.

— Mona Eltahawy

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.

— Martin Buber

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

— Winston Churchill

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

— George Bernard Shaw

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

— Henry David Thoreau

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut…

— Wynton Marsalis

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

— George Brandis

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

— Carlos Fuentes

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

— Mark Twain

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

— Gracie Gold

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence…

— Grant Hill

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

— T. S. Eliot

I'm not religious, but the tradition, the culture and the history are very important to me.

— Lauren Cohan

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept…

— Barbara Deming

The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to…

— Frida Giannini

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and…

— Christian Slater

We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret,…

— Sakyong Mipham

The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they…

— Peggy Noonan

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and…

— Mark Twain

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we…

— Nadia Boulanger

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius,…

— William Butler Yeats

On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition,…

— Ross Douthat

While often being called transdisciplinary, theonomous reasoning is actually a first step back to ancient wisdom in which methodological sensation [or what…

— Paul Laffoley

In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention,…

— Camille Paglia

In our society, talking about sex is still a taboo, and of course many village chiefs don't want to hear about that…

— Ousmane Sembene

In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge…

— James Wolfensohn

What I am trying to argue here [Save Calvinism] and in other works before this one is that the Reformed tradition as…

— Oliver D. Crisp

The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but…

— Andrew Linzey

I use are provisional terms, and they usually put any proper nouns in critical distance. I'm in a tradition of people who…

— Vijay Iyer

“Yoga has a long tradition of meeting people where they are.”

— Amy Vaughn

“Don’t be controlled by the tradition of men”

— Sunday Adelaja

Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.

— Anonymous

“You gotta look backwards to go forwards.”

— Fennel Hudson

I was blessed to play a small role in the Steelers tradition.

— Bill Cowher

“Traditions are not killed by facts.”

— George Orwell

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

— George Santayana

“…tradition gives the one thing many shapes.”

— W.B. Yeats