Best 530 quotes in «tradition quotes» category

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.

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

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

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

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

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

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

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.

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

Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day.

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

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.

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

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism.

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

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.

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

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.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

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

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

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

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.

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

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.

French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.

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

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

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

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

Holiday traditions in my family are really it's all about the kids.

Historically Turkey hasn't had much success in attracting foreign investment. Slowly that is changing. There's a tradition of arbitrary decisions by government ministers and senior civil servants, which would ruin businesses from one day to the next, and which has tended to deter foreign investment. That's changing, and convergence with E.U. practices is a good thing in that it improves governance.

Hoffmeier furnishes a sophisticated fresh approach to the Biblical Exodus traditions filled with detailed Egyptological background, and utterly indispensable because of its basis in recent, and in many cases as yet unpublished, archaeological data. This is a virtual encyclopedia of the Exodus.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

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

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary. I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according to its worst traditions. But all the more reason, therefore, to resist their aggression and take it seriously.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?