Tradition Quotes · Page 26

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

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

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“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

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

There are some societies where women are not even allowed to drive a car, and that restriction is based in the name…

— Asma Jahangir

Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me…

— Robert Genn

Ajax have a tradition of good football and play 4-3-3, which suits me. They also spend lots of money on youth players…

— Christian Eriksen

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of…

— Terry Eagleton

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for…

— Juan Felipe Herrera

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger…

— Silvio Berlusconi

From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general…

— Leon Trotsky

The U.S. has long characterized Haitian immigrants as criminals. This tradition began in 1963 when the first boat of Haitians seeking political…

— Opal Tometi

“For the Christian tradition, the heart’s true home is a life rooted in the love of God. Like Lao-tzu and Dorothy both,…

— Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Music that is considered minimalism - or post-minimalism music in general - things of that nature or that come from that tradition,…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

My favorite Shrapnel show happened one cold Christmas night when I was 16. It was a midnight show. Now if going to…

— Alisyn Camerota

A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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

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

— Jacques Barzun

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

— Kathryn Newton

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

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

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

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Julian Bream

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

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