Tradition Quotes · Page 33

Everybody loves Wimbledon, with all the tradition and everything else.

— Angelique Kerber

There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.

— Roger Rees

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank…

— Jonathan Demme

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

— Simon Gray

We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of…

— Bruce Rauner

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

— Martin E. Marty

You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think,…

— Ziauddin Yousafzai

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to…

— Robert Fitzgerald

Know that all times are Holy, that every religion holds truth, that each tradition is sacred, and that it is in the…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No…

— Frank Moore Cross

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition:…

— Irvine Welsh

The precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its…

— Clement Greenberg

Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that…

— Peter Ackroyd

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light…

— James Turrell

I had four different colors of hats, one of which was pink. I just got on a roll with the pink hat.…

— Karch Kiraly

These days, the media is defining what cultural capital is, and it's easily learned. If you have money, anything can be bought.…

— Lauren Greenfield

I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a…

— Ninian Smart

I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National…

— Norman Tebbit

When I said I had always hoped to marry in my race, I really do mean that. That doesn't mean I absolutely…

— Condoleezza Rice

Many Americans believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and we need to celebrate marriage as the best way to…

— James Lankford

Republicans - Reagan but also George W. Bush - believed in freedom, and they believed in America's role. To have the governing…

— Daniel Fried

To Amma, all are Her children. In Amma's eyes no defect of Her children is serious. But when She is considered as…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I don't want to make films that are constantly pleasing the audience, it is not my tradition.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

— Barbra Streisand

Just to be a part of that Laker tradition is really a dream come true.

— Brook Lopez

I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

— David Millar

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

— Todd Haynes

Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was…

— Mary H.K. Choi

“Tradition is never said to be “God-breathed”[6] and is never exalted to a place of equality with (or supremacy over) the Scriptures.”

— James Robert White

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

— Stephen Jay Gould

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

— Rory Stewart

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

— Jeff Goldblum

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a…

— Nhat Hanh

People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.

— Clive Rowe

Simon is clearly in the tradition of romantic archetypes, your Darcys, your Heathcliffes.

— Rege-Jean Page

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

— Louis de Bernieres

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

— Noam Chomsky

“A man in a kilt carries his heritage on his hips and courage in his heart.”

— Haider Ali Bajwa