Tradition Quotes - Page 14

Most traditional Scottish food is designed to use things that are just about to go...off.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a tradition. I'm just doing them because they're great songs.

The communal experience of sharing something, and being part of it, and watching something visually striking, that's what film is all about. Seeing everything on a big screen, and to be able to see something phenomenal in that way, and being moved by it. We have kind of lost the tradition of that, and we're not nurturing the next generation in that tradition, and maybe that's why they're not turning up.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

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

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

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

Secure in whom we are, rooted in one particular tradition or none at all, we have no reason to fear discovering God in the truth and wisdom of many traditions. Love casts out fear inviting us into happiness for all people and Creation.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

When Europeans came to the New World the first thing they said is, well, Indians don't appreciate property. They're savage. They're backwards. They're uncivilized. ... Nothing could be farther from the truth. Tribes have very clear conceptions of their traditional boundaries, they maintain their rights and their claim sovereignty over the lands according to their own honored traditions and tribal elders. And so, you can go out there on the reservation, and there might be a reservation boundary established by the United States. But then there's traditional land boundaries.

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

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

Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.

The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.

Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.

My family is very traditional, Catholic.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!