Tradition Quotes · Page 15

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of…

— Sharad Pawar

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

— Laura Nyro

“Sometimes when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.”

— Mitch Albom

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

— David Gross

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

— Jeffery Deaver

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

— Nicolas Cage

“To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is.”

— Blake Snyder

The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.

— Deepak Chopra

I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James…

— James Lee Burke

What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the…

— Edward Everett

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the…

— Benazir Bhutto

For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia…

— Richard Engel

Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than…

— Talal Asad

For me, actually, being a bishop in a bishopric where there's an academic tradition gives me this fascinating, challenging, but open invitation…

— N. T. Wright

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful…

— Virginia Woolf

Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once…

— Fred Rodell

It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their…

— N.K. Jemisin

The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest…

— Thomas Huxley

The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work…

— Che Guevara

A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The…

— Jeffrey Tayler

“It is natural to care for those who have cared for us, but at the point a man has been dead a…

— Joshua Gibbs

California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless…

— J. B. Priestley

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood,…

— Steven Van Zandt

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

— Elie Wiesel

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

— Diane Glancy

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

— James Agee

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

— David Soul

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

— Gloria Gaither

A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time.

— Neneh Cherry

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

— Tim Heidecker

“If you can't set a better example for progress, don't show disapproval against the worse tradition!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.

— Trevor Paglen

Tradition matters. To me it's not a limiting force; it's a springboard.

— Chris Thile

“No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.”

— Jeff Bezos

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

— Albert Einstein

The history and tradition of the Rose Bowl, if that doesn't get you excited, I don't know what will.

— Marcus Mariota

Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

— Larry Graham

I mean, Frank Sinatra is one of the great performers in pop music history. Why shouldn't I be delighted to carry on…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

— Paul Feyerabend