Tradition Quotes · Page 6

“Tradition was the last bastion of fools.”

— Steven Erikson

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

— Mario Andretti

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

— Franz Liszt

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.

— Anonymous

Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.

— Gustav Mahler

We have a great tradition of bodybuilding in the United States.

— Phil Heath

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

— Jules Feiffer

“The only faithful tradition is change.”

— Ted Agon

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

— Jeffery Deaver

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

— Nicolas Cage

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

— Greg Graffin

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

— Felix Riesenberg

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

— Susan Meiselas

“From now on, every Christmas, let's have a tradition where we eat soup out of a can by the fire.”

— Cindi Madsen

People have converted - and all because they've fallen in love with the richness, the depth and the tradition of the Catholic…

— Jonathan Roumie

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

— Emeril Lagasse

God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to…

— Karen Armstrong

Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that…

— Julius Evola

Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years…

— Alexander Downer

It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this…

— Richard E. Grant

Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an…

— Robert Fripp

Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There…

— James Hillman

Every great tradition has told you that you were created in the image and the likeness of the creative source. That means…

— James Arthur Ray

It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian…

— Michael Tsarion

Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and…

— Francis Bacon

Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes…

— Stanley Morison

The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western…

— Bernard Lewis

It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“When Sweetu wasn’t being reduced to merely existing as a bride, as a piece of meat to be handled and prodded, to…

— Scaachi Koul

I would love to add to the rich tradition that Duke University holds on and off the court, and play for one…

— Kevin Knox

Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.

— Ronaldo

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

— Vivienne Westwood

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

— Anonymous

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

— Eric Idle

I couldn't be prouder to be part of the Raiders tradition.

— Gardner Minshew

When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.

— George Steinbrenner

I find great joy in tradition, and, in fact, I seek it.

— Inbar Lavi

“I don't come out of an oral tradition, I come out of silence.”

— Colm Tóibín