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There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

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

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

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

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

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

There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.

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

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

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.

These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.

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

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us.

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

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

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.

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

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

The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

The vast majority of Muslims would never accept the lawfulness of an active homosexual lifestyle. I don't see that happening. But there is also no authority in the tradition for any individual to take things into his own hands and impose their version of the religion on someone else.

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

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

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

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 aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

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

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.

Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.

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

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

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

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.

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

Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

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

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

Tradition is laziness.

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

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

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

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

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

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.