Tradition Quotes · Page 30

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

— Debby Boone

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

— Ricky Williams

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a…

— Peter Stormare

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

— Candace Pert

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

— Elsie de Wolfe

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is…

— Henry Ford

In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

— Allen W. Wood

I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality,…

— Talal Asad

There's no choice left in America anymore. Anything that's authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is…

— Terry Zwigoff

It is ironic that so many politicians claim to defend traditional Christian values of 'faith and family.' In fact, a radical antifamily…

— Stephanie Coontz

Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at…

— Jim Gaffigan

Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of…

— Harold Innis

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature…

— Janne Teller

My father is from Copenhagen and he lived there until he was in his late 20s. We always grew up with a…

— Scarlett Johansson

For me, the main thing is spontaneity and taking chances. You have to study and know the traditions, but then you have…

— Dave Kikoski

I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university,…

— Karen Armstrong

The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial…

— Oliver D. Crisp

There's a lot of female singers and I don't want to dismiss them, but the male - and I have to be…

— Gregory Porter

A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine…

— Zeena Schreck

If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person.…

— Jacques Derrida

India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language…

— Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are…

— Haile Selassie

“In the West, people learn through the Socratic tradition. The education system was influenced by Western philosophy and is based on constantly…

— Sharanya Haridas

The attacking philosophy is in the walls of Man United. That's tradition; that's history. That's how we play and want to play.

— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

— P. J. Plauger

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants.

— Jose Serrano

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

— Oliver D. Crisp

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

— Beatrix Potter

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

— Michael Novak

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

— Sturgill Simpson

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully...

— Haile Selassie

My family, growing up, we really didn't have tradition because my parents divorced when I was 11.

— Angelina Pivarnick

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.

— Roma Downey

“MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.”

— Hillary DePiano

The most authentic and hallowed Wiccan tradition is stealing from any source that didn't run away too fast

— Margot Adler

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

— George Bernard Shaw

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

— Camille Paglia

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

— Salvador Dali