Tradition famous quotes

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
-- Aaron Allston

#Feet #Wipe #Tradition

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

#Tone #Tradition #Anti Semitic

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.
-- Adolph Gottlieb

#Innocence #Tradition #Form

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.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Tradition #Break

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
-- Alexander McQueen

#Tradition #Modern #Stills

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.
-- Alexander Vandegrift

#Military #Knees #Tradition

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
-- Alfred Brendel

#Pieces #Tradition #Should

The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism.
-- Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

#Cezanne #Tradition #Form

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
-- Allan Bloom

#Tradition

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.
-- Allan Bloom

#Inspiration #Tradition #Shackles

Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.
-- Amy Lowell

#Lasts #Tradition #Poet

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
-- Ang Lee

#Shoes #Culture #Tradition

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
-- Anne Carson

#Groups #Kind #Tradition

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.
-- Anne Waldman

#Girl #Tradition #Thirst

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.
-- Anthony Daniels

#Tradition #Ideology

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.
-- Ariel Gore

#Land #People #Tradition

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.
-- Art Garfunkel

#Artist #Female #Tradition

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough

#Sports #Competition #Tradition

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Memories #Technology #Tradition

The dead govern the living.
-- Auguste Comte

#Tradition

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
-- Barbara Brown Taylor

#Self #World #Tradition

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Doctrine #Tradition #Absence

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.
-- Bede Griffiths

#World #Mystery #Tradition

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
-- Bill Laswell

#Sides #Jazz #Tradition

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which arent in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.
-- Bill Shorten

#Unions #Tradition #Trade

Come on, Forney.' Novalee, it's a parasite.' But it's a tradition.' It's a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?' Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.
-- Billie Letts

#Kissing #People #Tradition

Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.
-- Billy Graham

#Dream #Reality #Tradition

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
-- Bjork

#Tradition #My Family #Farmers

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.
-- Bob Dole

#Vision #Tradition #Virtue

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.
-- Boozoo Chavis

#Tradition

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
-- Bruce Springsteen

#Narrative #Rock N Roll #Tradition

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
-- C.D. Wright

#Rewards #Artistic #Tradition

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
-- Camille Paglia

#Tradition #Deny #Western

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Ballet #Tradition

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
-- Carlos Fuentes

#Tradition #Creation

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Book #Tradition #Passports

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Australia #Long #Tradition

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.
-- Chaim Potok

#Religious #Fiction #Tradition

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

#Tradition #Classical Music #Music Is

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.
-- Chaske Spencer

#Curves #Race #Tradition

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
-- Chinua Achebe

#One Day #Goes On #Tradition

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
-- Claude Debussy

#Trying #Music Love #Tradition

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.
-- Clint Black

#Song #Writing #Tradition

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.
-- Colin MacInnes

#Wheels #Tradition #Mills

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
-- Constantin Stanislavski

#Break Up #Tradition #Breaking Promises

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
-- Cyril Falls

#Acceptance #Tradition #Ready

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
-- Dale Spender

#Women #Long #Tradition

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
-- Daniel Dennett

#Ideas #People #Tradition

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.
-- Daniela Ruah

#Tradition #States

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.
-- David First

#Inspiration #Jazz #Tradition

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.
-- David P. Gardner

#Learning #Tradition #Exposure

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.
-- Debby Boone

#Children #Helping #Tradition

Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers...
-- Diana Krall

#Voice #Singers #Tradition

Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.
-- Diane Greene

#Creating #Unity #Tradition

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.
-- Diane Wakoski

#Long #Lines #Tradition

I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the empty rituals and institutionalized values of all religious traditions.
-- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

#Religious #Littles #Tradition

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 mother love or cherry pie.
-- Edward Abbey

#Mother #Pie #Tradition

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.
-- Eleanora Duse

#Art #Tradition #Conventions

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
-- Elie Wiesel

#Believe #Tradition #Share

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
-- Elie Wiesel

#Coffee #Waiting #Tradition

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.
-- Elizabeth Kostova

#Heart #Wish #Tradition

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.
-- Ellen Goodman

#Powerful #Mind #Tradition

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.
-- Emeril Lagasse

#Cities #Tradition

The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
-- F. R. Leavis

#Novelists #Fiction #Tradition

The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
-- Feisal Abdul Rauf

#Country #World #Tradition

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.
-- Fernando Flores

#Halloween #Littles #Tradition

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.
-- Franz Marc

#Lovely #Tradition

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.
-- Georg Baselitz

#Monsters #Want #Tradition

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity
-- George Bernard Shaw

#People #Atrocities #Tradition

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.
-- George Brandis

#Tradition #Great Work

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
-- George Orwell

#People #Language #Tradition

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
-- George S. Patton

#Mediocrity #Tradition #Walks

When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.
-- George Steinbrenner

#Tradition #Protect

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.
-- George W. S. Trow

#Men #Tradition #Restless

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

#Doubt #Assuming #Tradition

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

#Reality #Tradition #Responsible

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.
-- Greg Bear

#Spiritual #Morality #Tradition

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.
-- Greg Graffin

#Human Nature #Tradition #Humans

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Faces #Tradition #Authority

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Flames #Ashes #Tradition

Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Fire #Ashes #Tradition

Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.
-- Guy Cook

#Advertising #Tradition #Young

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Philosophy #Esoteric #Tradition

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully...
-- Haile Selassie

#Diversity #Culture #Tradition

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Liberty #Tradition #Abraham

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
-- Hans Bender

#Tradition #Form #Probability

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
-- Hans Kung

#Years #Tradition

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
-- Hans-Georg Gadamer

#Prejudice #Speak #Tradition

One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
-- Harold Ford, Jr.

#Use #Tradition #Deny

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
-- Harold MacMillan

#Mean #Doe #Tradition

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
-- Harold Prince

#Truthful #Tradition #Theater

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
-- Harold Rosenberg

#Art #Tradition #Paradox

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Want #Journalism #Tradition

Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Law #Tradition

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South,
-- Horton Foote

#Strong #Oral Tradition #Tradition

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.
-- Hosea Ballou

#Facts #Tradition #Falsehood

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.
-- Idris Elba

#Drama #Actors #Tradition

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
-- Ishmael Beah

#Believe #I Believe #Tradition

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.
-- Israel Shenker

#Stuff #Tradition #Devotion

For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.
-- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

#Alive #Tradition #Fountain