Traditions Quotes

483 Traditions quotes by 408 unique authors

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited… — Alan Garner
I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones. — Orlando Bloom
The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the… — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other… — Fabiola Gianotti
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little… — Alan Gregg
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result… — John Acton
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of… — Jerry Costello
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. — Brian Ferneyhough
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge… — John Wycliffe
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought… — Albert Bushnell Hart
Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and… — Ferdinand Mount
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties. — James Stockdale
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. — Susan Lieberman
By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America. — James H. Douglas, Jr.
The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that… — Ai Weiwei
The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It… — Rosalind Wiseman
Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on… — Graham Joyce
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically… — Marilynne Robinson
In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper,… — Tom Shales
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing… — Tariq Ramadan
I think it is quite remarkable actually that Pope Benedict has a sense of the variety of ways in which it is possible to be… — Vincent Nichols
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions - Politics, like Rock, Pop,… — Tom Wolfe
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.… — Buddha
Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover… — Francis Bacon

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