Tradition Quotes · Page 24

Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.

— Anonymous

Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important.

— Donald L. Hallstrom

Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

— John P. Kotter

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

— Robert Crumb

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

— Richard Rorty

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

— Karl Marx

By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.

— Walter F. Mondale

Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success…

— David Duchovny

I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms…

— Barack Obama

I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began…

— Gregory A. Boyd

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of…

— Elizabeth George

I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of…

— Steve Forbert

A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have…

— Willis Lamb

Unlike water or wine or even Coca-Cola, sweet tea means something. It is a tell, a tradition. Sweet tea isn't a drink,…

— Allison Glock

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology…

— Andrew Lang

Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must…

— Dale Jamieson

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way…

— Richard M. Weaver

Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has…

— Michael Tsarion

“Hello, Lucy. Do you name all your weapons, Grunthor?” “O’ course. It’s tradition.” Rhapsody nodded, understanding coming into her eyes. “That makes…

— Elizabeth Haydon

The former West Germany was a semi-sovereign political pygmy, protected by America's military might and with barely any foreign policy of its…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

Every religious tradition on which we draw has a reverence for life. We are a part of an intricate web of life.…

— Peter Morales

I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are…

— Ninian Smart

Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether

— E. W. Bullinger

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

— Shane MacGowan

I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

— N. T. Wright

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

— George Meyer

Tradition means nothing. It's about what you do tomorrow as a football club, not what you did yesterday.

— Jimmy Hill

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

— Thomas a Kempis

[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

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I…

— Margaret Drabble

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

— Israel Shenker

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

— Claire Messud

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

— Waris Ahluwalia

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

— Constance Rourke

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

— Thom Yorke

I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.

— William Lashner

Whatever one thinks of Twitter, the Friday Reads hashtag is kind of a cool tradition.

— James Bernard Frost