Tradition Quotes · Page 27

The tradition of Umuganda is a beautiful and inspiring one. It connects people to their surrounds and creates a responsible community.

— Clemantine Wamariya

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

— Thomas Hauser

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

— John Hodgman

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“...I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.”

— Gordon Lish

Shows like 'All in the Family' and now 'Mom' - there's a tradition of tackling real issues.

— Max Greenfield

India and Italy have a lot in common, especially the tradition of luxury.

— Marco Bizzarri

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.

— Chris Rock

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the…

— Jacques Derrida

Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to…

— Tim Jackson

In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through…

— Edward Hirsch

My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release…

— Karim Rashid

As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or…

— Lori Copeland

'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the…

— Stanley Hauerwas

People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working…

— Pete Seeger

Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, or other historical traditions, are all different streams in the same river, different currents in the same…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote…

— Pankaj Mishra

In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless…

— Rajneesh

The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all…

— Ken Wilber

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in…

— Vita Sackville-West

The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court…

— Howard Zinn

The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn -…

— Daniel Fried

Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against…

— Lord Acton

With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still,…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

— Mason Cooley

It's a great Disney tradition, isn't it? For every single character to die in all their movies.

— Gareth Edwards

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

— Andris Nelsons

Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.

— Erwin McManus

You don't hear about tradition in the NFL, but we have a tradition in Baltimore. It was just an awesome place to…

— Ed Reed

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

— Rowan Williams

I never missed a Sunday lunch growing up and I've continued that tradition with my own family.

— Tess Daly

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

— Robert Casey

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I…

— Rosanne Cash

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

— Dale Spender

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

— Elie Wiesel

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

— E. M. Forster

In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.

— Robert Moss

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

— John Stuart Mill

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

— Anonymous