Tradition Quotes · Page 34

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

— Jonathan Demme

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

— Larry Hurtado

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

— C.D. Wright

We are our culture and tradition; if there is no culture or tradition we are no one.

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.

— Jeff Fortenberry

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.

— Conchata Ferrell

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

— Lyudmila Alexeyeva

Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our families, gay and straight. Our party has…

— Jeanne Shaheen

The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

— Sharon Salzberg

Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits…

— Leigh-Allyn Baker

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are…

— J. C. Ryle

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in…

— Gillian Welch

I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part…

— Katherine Jenkins

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists…

— George Santayana

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very…

— Geddy Lee

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has…

— Dave Brubeck

Knowing her we will know that we are her divine children in a relationship of complete, unconditionally loving intimacy; we will know…

— Andrew Harvey

Every great religion on the planet, regardless of what spiritual or cultural tradition from which it is that it emerges, announces and…

— Neale Donald Walsch

My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my…

— Vladimir Nabokov

But if a peaceful world is beyond politics it is also beyond religions as these presently exist. A change is needed in…

— Thomas Berry

I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies.…

— Frances McDormand

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman…

— Wangari Maathai

All I knew about Ireland before I went there was what I learned from watching soap commercials all my life. I was…

— Arj Barker

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

— Roy Barnes

As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.

— Kelvin Sampson

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

— Bjork

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

— Ted Rall

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the…

— Walter Benjamin

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

— Mason Cooley

“Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Obviously Manchester United's tradition and history speaks for itself.

— Tobin Heath

I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.

— Matthew Desmond

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

— Steven Strogatz

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

— Elie Wiesel

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

— Jonathan Ive

For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be…

— Richard Patrick

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

— Giordano Bruno

There's a certain tradition to the way that you behave in dance, and a certain respect that you give to your elders.

— Neve Campbell

Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.

— Sean McDermott