Tradition Quotes
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Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. (Quote by - Calvin Trillin)
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
All tradition is merely the past. (Quote by - Jiddu Krishnamurti)
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Tradition is the illusion of permanence. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. (Quote by - Kate Chopin)
The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs. (Quote by - Silvio Berlusconi)
Tradition wears a snowy beard. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
I thought it was just December 25 you were supposed to hand out gifts - we've carried on the tradition to January 2 as well (Quote by - Glen Hoddle)
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives. (Quote by - Mary Bateson)
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany. (Quote by - James M Baldwin)
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing (Quote by - Jose Bergamin)
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay (Quote by - Jiddu Krishnamurti)
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. (Quote by - Alfred Brendel)
The few really great - the major novelists... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. (Quote by - F R Leavis)
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. (Quote by - Jacques Barzun)
Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking (Quote by - Grace McGarvie)
The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch. (Quote by - Michael Armstrong)
The tradition of baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is 'do anything you can get away with' (Quote by - Heywood Broun)
Her [Diana's] blood family will do all they can to ensure her sons are not simply immersed by duty and tradition. (Quote by - Charles Spencer)
Think freely and independently or you are a slave bound by imaginaryshackles. These shackles may be wrought by tradition, emotion, neediness, or fear. (Quote by - Jason Merchey)
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. (Quote by - Henry James)
Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
But it seems to me that we ended up with the things that were able to fit in what had already been the tradition. (Quote by - David Baker)
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. (Quote by - Cyril Falls)
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living. (Quote by - Harold Macmillan)
To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a 'mummified' form. (Quote by - Alfred Jarry)
A fundamental problem in such studies stems from the long tradition that has regarded artistic productions as social facts. (Quote by - Norman Denzin)
As soon as tradition has come to be recognised as tradition, it is dead. (Quote by - Allan Bloom)
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought. (Quote by - JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI)
When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being. (Quote by - Gayl Jones)
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. (Quote by - Johnny Depp)
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. (Quote by - Ellen Goodman)
A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. (Quote by - T.S. Eliot)
It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly. (Quote by - Barbra Streisand)
