Tradition Quotes
1555 Tradition quotes by 1164 unique authors
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Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There…
— Stanley Elkin
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Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short term, but you…
— Mindy Grossman
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In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.
— Thomas Yellowtail
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I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over…
— Tony Oliva
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America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain…
— James Norwood Pratt
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Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.
— T. Thorn Coyle
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I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the…
— Bruce Feiler
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Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my…
— Diana Krall
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Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit…
— Leo Strauss
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Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported…
— Mark Gatiss
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People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying…
— Jodi Picoult
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Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.
— Benjamin Zephaniah
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The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead…
— Larry McMurtry
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Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.
— Philip Pullman
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The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which…
— Michael Tilson Thomas
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It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair.
— Steve McNair
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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan…
— J. B. Priestley
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If it was in my control, Id still be wearing a Red Sox uniform, because its the place I know, I love. All of those…
— Nomar Garciaparra
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It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments…
— Ashley Kahn
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Know that all times are Holy, that every religion holds truth, that each tradition is sacred, and that it is in the simple sharing of…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
— Samuel Johnson
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But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the…
— Albert Einstein
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The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word…
— Tom Turner
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The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
— Candace Parker
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Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition,
— Lubov Azria
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