Tradition Quotes

1555 Tradition quotes by 1164 unique authors

Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the… — Chief Seattle
The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always… — Lee Greenwood
One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. — John Stuart Mill
The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier. — Louis de Bernieres
We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior,… — Ruth Benedict
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its… — Susan Sontag
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to… — Alice Meynell
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. — Octavio Paz
There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing. — Carlos Fuentes
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change.… — Maxine Hong Kingston
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand… — Israel Shenker
Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held… — Israel Shenker
In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness. — Israel Shenker
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have… — Amy Vanderbilt
Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours… — Tom Harpur
We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us… — Nursultan Nazarbayev
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of… — Pat Oliphant
Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one… — Neal Gabler
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now… — Christian Lous Lange
When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In… — Jacques Parizeau
I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a… — Jean Pigozzi
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific… — Michael Polanyi
The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect. — Sharad Pawar
The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But… — Feisal Abdul Rauf

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