Tradition Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Tradition
Tradition Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Tradition quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.
— Jerry Seinfeld
Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Tradition is the crown of the tyrant.
— Pierce Brown
As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
To give a tangerine is a Chinese New Year's Tradition. Stems are left on to keep friendship intact.
— Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.
— Colin MacInnes
In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.
— Norman Mailer
He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves
— John Mallory Asher
The new is a guest in the house of the old.
— Marty Rubin
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.
— Stacy Aumonier
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.
— Novak Djokovic
I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.
— Candace Pert
Most seasonings are based on family tradition.
— Wolfgang Puck
Tradition is for the weak.
— Winter Renshaw
A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time.
— Neneh Cherry
Half of tradition is a lie.
— Stephen Crane
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.
— Loretta Lynn
It is a tradition among our desert tribes. A man may borrow what he needs. Stealing is crime.
— James Rollins
Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.
— Narendra Modi
Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.
— Bernard E. Rollin
There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.
— John Prendergast
Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.
— Maxine Kumin
Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.
— Bassem Youssef
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
— Donna Tartt
The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.
— Elena Ferrante
Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
A single man's imperfect conscience can never be superior to centuries of tradition.
— Philippa Gregory
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
— Henry David Thoreau
Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types.
— Iain M. Banks
Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.
— Benjamin Zephaniah
tradition is truer than fashion.
— G.K. Chesterton
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.
— Moses Finley
I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.
— David Blunkett
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.
— Richelle Mead
This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.
— Allan Bloom
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition ... .
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
— Debbie Harry
America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor.
— Helen Boosalis
Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.
— John Piper
As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
— Mark Kennedy
That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.
— Nichole Chase
One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'
— Julie Burchill
One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
— Dave Heineman
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
— Martin Heidegger
Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war,
— Yitzhak Shamir
Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition.
— Eric Samuel Timm
American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.
— Barack Obama
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
— Ashwin Sanghi
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
— Salvador Dali
I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South,
— Horton Foote
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
— Ian McEwan
Put tradition first, and scripture will be muzzled and faded. Put scripture first, and tradition will come to new life. Better
— N. T. Wright
Results from a given approach are " facts " as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed
— Paul Feyerabend
You gotta look backwards to go forwards.
— Fennel Hudson
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
— James Russell Lowell
![Tradition Quotes By Mark Twain: [The Bible is] a mass of fables and](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/tradition-quotes-by-mark-twain-8962.jpg "Tradition Quotes By Mark Twain: [The Bible is] a mass of fables and")
it was the night when people got paid and didn't have to work the next day, and so by tradition went out to get drunk and into fights. Then
— Iain M. Banks
MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.
— Hillary DePiano
Each movement during combat honors the movements that the previous generations tried to transmit through the Tradition.
— Paulo Coelho
Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.
— John Trudell
You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.
— Joseph Jacobs
We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.
— David P. Gardner
I'm not fond of a tradition that requires people to open the door for strangers. Or for kids to take candy from strangers.
— Megan Erickson
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.
— Richard Patrick
All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.
— Doug Stanhope
Duty. That was a word I hated as much as tradition.
— Mary E. Pearson
Inside the restaurant young Strattonites carried on their time-honored tradition of acting like packs of untamed wolves.
— Jordan Belfort
In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.
— Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.
— David Gross
....tradition gives the one thing many shapes.
— W.B.Yeats
Tradition is a challenge to innovation..
— Alvaro Siza Vieira
