Tradition Quotes · Page 33

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

— David Millar

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

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

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

“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

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

It's a better tradition for people who think for themselves and who don't pray in aid of any supernatural authority. That's what…

— Christopher Hitchens

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a…

— Sigourney Weaver

People are interested in family traditions, and I think a lot of families can benefit from some of the ways that my…

— Ralph Nader

Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their…

— Okky Madasari

Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or…

— Paul Feyerabend

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the…

— Donovan

When I was a young priest in the 1960s and 1970s, there was much experimentation and confusion in the Church. Teachers and…

— Donald Wuerl

My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around…

— Jared Polis

There is something new in the air. There is, there is a - a hunger for an open, non-dogmatic, form of Christian…

— Philip Clayton

“In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the…

— Chris Prentiss

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils…

— Jennifer Aniston

Beyond that, it gets down to the nuts and bolts of discipline - not a tradition or genre, I don't care about…

— Vijay Iyer

The value of "one person, one vote," the value of equality, is a value that was given to us more than 50…

— Lawrence Lessig

The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no…

— Edward S. Curtis

For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it…

— Pope Leo XIII

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were…

— Damian Lewis

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

— Clive Rowe

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

— Nhat Hanh

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

— Deepak Chopra

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

— Philip Pullman

I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.

— Mark Shields

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but…

— John Ashcroft

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them…

— Moses Finley

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

— Jasper Fforde

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

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

— Zooey Deschanel

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

— Norman Jewison

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

— Bruce Rauner

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

— Simon Gray