Tradition Quotes · Page 16

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

— James Russell Lowell

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

— Ronald Reagan

One thing you learn very rapidly in this business is that you are part of a continuing tradition.

— Julian Bream

There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

— Paula Gunn Allen

It means so much to me that my family went against our tradition for me.

— Sonita Alizadeh

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

— Anonymous

I loved 'Paranormal Activity.' It was one of my favorites before. It was a tradition; my friends and I went every year.

— Kathryn Newton

I like the dynamism and the joy cabare creates. I have always taken my job very seriously, but have always liked to…

— Jean Paul Gaultier

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not…

— Alfred Brendel

There is definitely a mood in the party for making sure that two cabinet heavyweights we have got, who come from different…

— Nicky Morgan

I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language…

— Jackie McLean

In my case, I was representing my family name, honor, legacy... I did not see it as a sport requiring winning or…

— Rickson Gracie

We have a long and proud tradition as a nation of investing in our human capital so that we can build a…

— Tom Perez

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public…

— J. William Fulbright

In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle…

— Maryanne Trump Barry

“Let's consider the Bible with fresh eyes without the distorted lens of historical Christianity. Let's pray that the readers of this book…

— Henry Hon

A traditionalist can sometimes be looked at as someone who is a fundamentalist, or they can be looked at as someone with…

— Maya Tiwari

Little brats yellin 'Trick or Treat' all through my screen door, When y'all should be at home sleep, Instead of at my…

— Kam

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing,…

— Andrew Motion

I decided to set official visits to Murray State and South Carolina. But once I went to Murray, I knew that's where…

— Ja Morant

The traditional roots of Scandinavian cuisine are not that spectacular, to say the least. When we write about the traditions that we…

— Rene Redzepi

The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

— Jacques Barzun

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

— Barack Obama

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain…

— Elizabeth Kostova

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetition”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

We have a strong tradition in our country of senior leaders being apolitical, nonpartisan.

— Joseph Dunford

The Champions League and the Premier League are now both huge, but the tradition and history of the FA Cup is still…

— Michael Carrick

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

— Cate Blanchett

Eating together was a big part of my upbringing and a tradition we keep daily amongst the amazing team at Milk Bar.

— Christina Tosi

“The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.”

— Pat Conroy

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

— Dave Heineman

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

— Peter Kreeft

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

— Trey Anastasio

He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves

— John Mallory Asher