Tradition Quotes · Page 14

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

— Vladimir Putin

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

— Allan Bloom

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

— Nancy Pelosi

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

— Franz Marc

Simon is clearly in the tradition of romantic archetypes, your Darcys, your Heathcliffes.

— Rege-Jean Page

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

— Aristophanes

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

— Bong Joon-ho

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

— Anonymous

Muslims have their own traditions. The important point to bear in mind is that the whole Muslim tradition is totally and unequivocally…

— Bernard Lewis

We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program…

— Caitlyn Jenner

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only…

— Daisaku Ikeda

The tradition of Chicago price theory is a good one, and it is a low-tech methodology that tries to apply simple economic…

— Richard Thaler

Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and…

— Barton Seaver

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the…

— Karen Armstrong

I would have paid out royalties if we were still working together, carrying on Bob's tradition and generating income, but that was…

— Rita Marley

The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they…

— Anonymous

The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to…

— Tariq Ramadan

“Our second danger is to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim…

— T.S. Eliot

The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems.…

— Chogyam Trungpa

The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior…

— Felix Frankfurter

I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how…

— Robert Lopez

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for…

— Dean Spade

[ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be…

— Philip Berrigan

It's really easy for someone to say no one should have guns when they're guarded by people with MP-5s. It's a little…

— Sean Hannity

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation...

— Elie Wiesel

Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.

— Jared Polis

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

— Stefan Molyneux

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

— Ernest Sosa

My daddy - whenever he wanted to teach us a lesson, he'd tell us a story. It's an Old South tradition.

— Leslie Jordan

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

— Alethea Kontis

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

— Irving Kristol

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

— Philipp Meyer

Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the…

— Rod Parsley

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

— Greg Graffin

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

— Felix Riesenberg

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

— Susan Meiselas

“From now on, every Christmas, let's have a tradition where we eat soup out of a can by the fire.”

— Cindi Madsen

People have converted - and all because they've fallen in love with the richness, the depth and the tradition of the Catholic…

— Jonathan Roumie

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

— Emeril Lagasse