Quotes about Tradition

Tradition is the illusion of permanance. Votes: 9

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. Votes: 8

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead. Votes: 7

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. Votes: 6

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Votes: 6

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. Votes: 5

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. Votes: 5

The dead govern the living. Votes: 4

Tradition is a very powerful force. Votes: 4

In America nothing dies easier than tradition. Votes: 4

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory. Votes: 4

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. Votes: 4

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. Votes: 4

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it. Votes: 4

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia. Votes: 4

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. Votes: 4

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. Votes: 4

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Votes: 4

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash. Votes: 4

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. Votes: 4

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it Votes: 4

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. Votes: 4

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself. Votes: 4

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of. Votes: 4

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. Votes: 4

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Votes: 4

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it Votes: 4

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form. Votes: 4

The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it. Votes: 4

Tradition has made women cowardly. Votes: 3

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following. Votes: 3

Tradition was safety; change was danger. Votes: 3

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.. Votes: 3

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity Votes: 3

Tradition is a prop for social security. Votes: 3

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit. Votes: 3

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress. Votes: 3

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes. Votes: 3

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom. Votes: 3

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. Votes: 3

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. Votes: 3

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness. Votes: 3

Tradition and heritage are all dead peoples baggage. Stop carrying it. Move forward. Votes: 3

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present. Votes: 3

Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking. Votes: 3

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel. Votes: 3

There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things. Votes: 3

Domains like Trade, Technology, Tourism, Talent and Tradition have the power to redefine existing paradigms. Votes: 3

Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive. Votes: 3

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post. Votes: 3

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Votes: 3

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living. Votes: 3

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth. Votes: 3

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself. Votes: 3

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing Votes: 3

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it. Votes: 3

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded. Votes: 3

Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management. Votes: 3

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar. Votes: 3

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on. Votes: 3

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. Votes: 3

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. Votes: 3

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee. Votes: 3

Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether Votes: 3

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things. Votes: 3

Tradition or not, I sometimes thought putting children on an old guy's lap was already creepy enough. We didn't need to mix alcohol into it. Votes: 3

Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing. Votes: 3

Tradition is laziness. Votes: 2

Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes. Votes: 2

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition. Votes: 2

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Votes: 2

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. Votes: 2

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. Votes: 2

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. Votes: 2

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. Votes: 2

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity. Votes: 2

I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times. Votes: 2

I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best! Votes: 2

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others. Votes: 2

There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti. Votes: 2

Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana. Votes: 2

I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it. Votes: 2

I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights. Votes: 2

As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion. Votes: 2

There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more. Votes: 2

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe. Votes: 2

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it. Votes: 2

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. Votes: 2

I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition. Votes: 2

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. Votes: 2

Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. Votes: 2

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going. Votes: 1

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition. Votes: 0

Half of tradition is a lie. Votes: 0

All tradition is merely the past. Votes: 0

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary. Votes: 0

Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality. Votes: 0

Most seasonings are based on family tradition. Votes: 0

Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition. Votes: 0

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition. Votes: 0

Each country is strong on some tradition. Votes: 0

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. Votes: 0

It takes a lifetime to build tradition. Votes: 0

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco. Votes: 0

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function. Votes: 0

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition Votes: 0

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! Votes: 0

Settling other people's land is an American tradition. Votes: 0

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion. Votes: 0

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers. Votes: 0

India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths. Votes: 0

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation... Votes: 0

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition. Votes: 0

I do not come out of a literary tradition. Votes: 0

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition. Votes: 0

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps. Votes: 0

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition. Votes: 0

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial. Votes: 0

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. Votes: 0

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting. Votes: 0

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. Votes: 0

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights. Votes: 0

I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice. Votes: 0

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly. Votes: 0

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition. Votes: 0

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it! Votes: 0

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts. Votes: 0

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana. Votes: 0

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it. Votes: 0

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully... Votes: 0

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition. Votes: 0

The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx. Votes: 0

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation. Votes: 0

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition. Votes: 0

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Votes: 0

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South, Votes: 0

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing. Votes: 0

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition. Votes: 0

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition. Votes: 0

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill. Votes: 0

In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question. Votes: 0

The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition. Votes: 0

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis. Votes: 0

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid. Votes: 0

Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none. Votes: 0

When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it. Votes: 0

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy. Votes: 0

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater. Votes: 0

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general. Votes: 0

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion. Votes: 0

Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach. Votes: 0

Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition. Votes: 0

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human. Votes: 0

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. Votes: 0

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government. Votes: 0

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private. Votes: 0

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness. Votes: 0

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition. Votes: 0

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality. Votes: 0

My family has a Christmas tradition: Every year, they kill my mom. Votes: 0

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition. Votes: 0

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence. Votes: 0

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years. Votes: 0

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition. Votes: 0

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas. Votes: 0

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it. Votes: 0

[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager. Votes: 0

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. Votes: 0

I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language. Votes: 0

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions. Votes: 0

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter. Votes: 0

There is a very strong theatre-going tradition in Moscow. It has stayed strong. Votes: 0

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it. Votes: 0

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition Votes: 0

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. Votes: 0

The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche. Votes: 0

'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology. Votes: 0

I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation. Votes: 0

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. Votes: 0

In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai. Votes: 0

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion. Votes: 0

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars. Votes: 0

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave. Votes: 0

We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God. Votes: 0

The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years. Votes: 0

It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair. Votes: 0

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke. Votes: 0

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life. Votes: 0

There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for. Votes: 0

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist. Votes: 0

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education. Votes: 0

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. Votes: 0

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold. Votes: 0

We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants. Votes: 0

Man must not check reason by tradition, but contrariwise, must check tradition by reason. Votes: 0

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past. Votes: 0

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. Votes: 0

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized. Votes: 0

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Votes: 0

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented. Votes: 0

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. Votes: 0

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. Votes: 0

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition. Votes: 0

The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances. Votes: 0

If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity Votes: 0

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us. Votes: 0

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City. Votes: 0

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way. Votes: 0

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition. Votes: 0

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism. Votes: 0

One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources. Votes: 0

It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan. Votes: 0

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. Votes: 0

Creativity is rich with unexpected possibility. Know-how is mere fragmented mechanics which lacks tradition. Votes: 0

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies. Votes: 0

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik. Votes: 0

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it. Votes: 0

People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition. Votes: 0

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity. Votes: 0

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. Votes: 0

The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord. Votes: 0

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny Votes: 0

One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth. Votes: 0

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition. Votes: 0

The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually. Votes: 0

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters. Votes: 0

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance. Votes: 0

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own. Votes: 0

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes. Votes: 0

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition. Votes: 0

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Votes: 0

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy. Votes: 0

Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition, Votes: 0

He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves Votes: 0

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition. Votes: 0

As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition. Votes: 0

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states. Votes: 0

With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition. Votes: 0

If you can't set a better example for progress, don't show disapproval against the worse tradition! Votes: 0

Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment. Votes: 0

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. Votes: 0

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever. Votes: 0

Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you. Votes: 0

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy. Votes: 0

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Votes: 0

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. Votes: 0

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings... Votes: 0

I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition. Votes: 0

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it. Votes: 0

Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality. Votes: 0

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. Votes: 0

He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever. Votes: 0

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city. Votes: 0

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude. Votes: 0

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition. Votes: 0

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family. Votes: 0

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share. Votes: 0

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency. Votes: 0

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition. Votes: 0

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. Votes: 0

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde. Votes: 0

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization. Votes: 0

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. Votes: 0

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things. Votes: 0

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional. Votes: 0

Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely. Votes: 0

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. Votes: 0

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War. Votes: 0

Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive. Votes: 0

I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me. Votes: 0

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition. Votes: 0

My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings. Votes: 0

By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye. Votes: 0

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat. Votes: 0

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason. Votes: 0

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile. Votes: 0

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others. Votes: 0

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts. Votes: 0

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war, Votes: 0

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know. Votes: 0

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. Votes: 0

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration. Votes: 0

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition Votes: 0

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other. Votes: 0

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. Votes: 0

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology! Votes: 0

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet. Votes: 0

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence. Votes: 0

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. Votes: 0

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. Votes: 0

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati. Votes: 0

America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor. Votes: 0

I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style. Votes: 0

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors. Votes: 0

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. Votes: 0

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition. Votes: 0

The most authentic and hallowed Wiccan tradition is stealing from any source that didn't run away too fast Votes: 0

I have heard that in the New Zealand native tradition, the soul, when it dies, becomes a star. Votes: 0

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration. Votes: 0

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. Votes: 0

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform. Votes: 0

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making. Votes: 0

There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant. Votes: 0

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. Votes: 0

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow. Votes: 0

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions. Votes: 0

Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless. Votes: 0

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition. Votes: 0

I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day. Votes: 0

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word. Votes: 0

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come. Votes: 0

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. Votes: 0

As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself. Votes: 0

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale. Votes: 0

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children. Votes: 0

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style. Votes: 0

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. Votes: 0

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition. Votes: 0

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. Votes: 0

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming. Votes: 0

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film. Votes: 0

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome. Votes: 0

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun. Votes: 0

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. Votes: 0

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition. Votes: 0

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics. Votes: 0

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone. Votes: 0

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. Votes: 0

Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone. Votes: 0

There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia. Votes: 0

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford. Votes: 0

Being a great believer in Scottish tradition, I followed the example of my fellow countrymen and moved to England. Votes: 0

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm. Votes: 0

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang. Votes: 0

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly. Votes: 0

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. Votes: 0

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions. Votes: 0

I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue. Votes: 0

I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka. Votes: 0

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. Votes: 0

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles. Votes: 0

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools. Votes: 0

I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York. Votes: 0

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation... Votes: 0

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people. Votes: 0

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. Votes: 0

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking. Votes: 0

It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood. Votes: 0

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure. Votes: 0

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition. Votes: 0

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. Votes: 0

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. Votes: 0

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build. Votes: 0

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence. Votes: 0

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that. Votes: 0

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that. Votes: 0

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. Votes: 0

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. Votes: 0

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind. Votes: 0

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. Votes: 0

It's love that is at the very core of witch tradition, my darling girl. The rest is just trappings." Votes: 0

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born... Votes: 0

The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life. Votes: 0

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition. Votes: 0

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people. Votes: 0

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like. Votes: 0

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security... Votes: 0

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Votes: 0

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood. Votes: 0

People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets. Votes: 0

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark. Votes: 0

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. Votes: 0

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit. Votes: 0

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines. Votes: 0

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued. Votes: 0

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather? Votes: 0

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany. Votes: 0

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition. Votes: 0

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value. Votes: 0

I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition. Votes: 0

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show. Votes: 0

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much. Votes: 0

A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time. Votes: 0

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors. Votes: 0

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. Votes: 0

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and doing a show. Votes: 0

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison. Votes: 0

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son. Votes: 0

In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition. Votes: 0

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion. Votes: 0

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods. Votes: 0

The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of Votes: 0

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value. Votes: 0

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. Votes: 0

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view. Votes: 0

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition. Votes: 0

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. Votes: 0

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition. Votes: 0

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth. Votes: 0

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good? Votes: 0

I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban. Votes: 0

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led. Votes: 0

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. Votes: 0

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven! Votes: 0

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition. Votes: 0

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. Votes: 0

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. Votes: 0

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live. Votes: 0

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one." Votes: 0

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context. Votes: 0

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle. Votes: 0

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one. Votes: 0

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves. Votes: 0

In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition. Votes: 0

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.' Votes: 0

The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition. Votes: 0

Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue. Votes: 0

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning. Votes: 0

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. Votes: 0

You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build. Votes: 0

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology Votes: 0

When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. Votes: 0

Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition. Votes: 0

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds. Votes: 0

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court. Votes: 0

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. Votes: 0

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power. Votes: 0

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time. Votes: 0

To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism Votes: 0

The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA. Votes: 0

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. Votes: 0

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition. Votes: 0

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it. Votes: 0

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier. Votes: 0

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with." Votes: 0

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field. Votes: 0

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that. Votes: 0

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it. Votes: 0

The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good. Votes: 0

Results from a given approach are " facts " as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed Votes: 0

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Votes: 0

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves. Votes: 0

I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment. Votes: 0

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past. Votes: 0

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition. Votes: 0

Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels. Votes: 0

Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made. Votes: 0

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly. Votes: 0

The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography. Votes: 0

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together! Votes: 0

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history. Votes: 0

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect. Votes: 0

For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come. Votes: 0

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition. Votes: 0

The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition. Votes: 0

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition. Votes: 0

It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons. Votes: 0

We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot. Votes: 0

I loved 'Paranormal Activity.' It was one of my favorites before. It was a tradition; my friends and I went every year. Votes: 0

My goal ... not to go back to Rembrandt ... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date. Votes: 0

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule. Votes: 0

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech. Votes: 0

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth. Votes: 0

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition. Votes: 0

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore. Votes: 0

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts. Votes: 0

Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right? Annabeth: Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we'll see. Votes: 0

Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat. Votes: 0

As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family. Votes: 0

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country. Votes: 0

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been. Votes: 0

I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young. Votes: 0

When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves. Votes: 0

The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact. Votes: 0

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it. Votes: 0

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries. Votes: 0

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. Votes: 0

Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India. Votes: 0

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence. Votes: 0

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise. Votes: 0

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations. Votes: 0

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work. Votes: 0

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. Votes: 0

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice. Votes: 0

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court. Votes: 0

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that. Votes: 0

There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that. Votes: 0

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing. Votes: 0

There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps. Votes: 0

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. Votes: 0

I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there. Votes: 0

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue. Votes: 0

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 too harshly. Votes: 0

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof. Votes: 0

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down. Votes: 0

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God. Votes: 0

I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me. Votes: 0

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know. Votes: 0

For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it's awesome to be a part of that tradition. Votes: 0