Culture Quote by Matthew Desmond

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

— Matthew Desmond

As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing in this…

— Ken Liu

I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.

— William Lashner

I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before, which was…

— Kate Christensen

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

— Laurie Anderson

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken…

— Vladimir Sorokin

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is…

— Learned Hand

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as…

— Edward Abbey

I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and…

— Jesmyn Ward

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

— Michael Moriarty

“Sacred Tradition predates and precedes Sacred Scripture, but both come from the same source: God.”

— Consumer Dummies