Tradition Quotes

1555 Tradition quotes by 1164 unique authors

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. — Barbara Brown Taylor
It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them, enslave them and… — Gary Yourofsky
We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past. — Klaus Schulze
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and… — Lawren Harris
We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the… — Larry Mullen, Jr.
My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned me to look… — Unknown Author
I’m really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T,… — Lane Kiffin
The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description… — Harryette Mullen
It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind of permission to… — Unknown Author
There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia. — Unknown Author
In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection. Cotman seizes the… — Unknown Author
The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of… — Unknown Author
If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst. — Unknown Author
The most authentic and hallowed Wiccan tradition is stealing from any source that didn't run away too fast — Margot Adler
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we… — Frank Lloyd Wright
How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national… — Ehud Olmert
This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing… — Henry David Thoreau
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new… — George W. Bush
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother… — Edward Abbey
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the… — Samuel Adams
There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace. — David Trimble
Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had… — Hannah Arendt
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his… — Robert Fitzgerald
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as… — Robert Fitzgerald
When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations… — Sol LeWitt

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