Tradition Quotes

Tradition Quote of the day

We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

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

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

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

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.

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

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

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

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

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

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

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.

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

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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

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

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

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

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

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.

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

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

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

I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.

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

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

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

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 the masses.

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.

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Rae Chorze-Fwaz has preserved and passed on their secret meditation techniques in oral tradition from the time of Atlantis until he present day.

It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

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

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.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.