Tradition Quotes

1555 Tradition quotes by 1164 unique authors

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field. — Thom Yorke
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should… — Paula Gunn Allen
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise… — Paula Gunn Allen
I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court. — Anthony Kennedy
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is… — John Paul Stevens
Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and… — Wynton Marsalis
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional… — Wynton Marsalis
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually… — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very… — E T A Hoffmann
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend were all living in… — Philip Glass
Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how… — Matthew Barney
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a… — Bill Laswell
As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity — Paul Robeson
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may… — Sinclair Lewis
Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself. — Kenzo Tange
We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini.… — Richard Meier
Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff… — Wangari Maathai
Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important. — Donald L. Hallstrom
Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum… — Robert Teeter
The solution to the nation's problems, depends on the true American achievers. It's people like you, playing by the rules and celebrating and continuing to… — Rush Limbaugh
Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it. — Michael Novak
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists… — C.S. Lewis
Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. — Jaroslav Pelikan
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power. — Dale Spender

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