Tradition Quotes

1555 Tradition quotes by 1164 unique authors

If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we… — Carter Heyward
It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects… — Linda Hogan
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities,… — Maxine Hong Kingston
The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle… — Malcolm X
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked… — Adrienne Rich
If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's Day tradition in… — Michael Showalter
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a… — Chip Kidd
To all of you I should like to say that in the course of this war you will have to acquire the experience and achieve… — Subhas Chandra Bose
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post.… — Thomas Holcomb
The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps. — Unknown Author
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. — Winston Churchill
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and… — Vita Sackville-West
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of… — Elizabeth Gilbert
No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in… — Nhat Hanh
The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings… — H.G. Wells
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley
The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh… — John Stott
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. — Mark Twain
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the… — William Shakespeare
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself. — Thomas a Kempis
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. — Plutarch

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