Tradition Quotes - Page 15

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

I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from various oral and folk traditions (many of them going far back) in the Hellenistic period. That was one of several currents, of which the collection that formed the New Testament was another.

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

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

Tradition has made women cowardly.

I started playing polo when I was nine years old. I'm from Argentina, so in Argentina polo is more of a common thing. We have a lot of horses and a polo tradition and it's something that goes from generation to generation.

My concern is to develop a North American type of anarchism that comes out of the American tradition, or that at least can be communicated to Americans and that takes into consideration that Americans are not any longer people of European background.

I'm a traditional wife in every sense.

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.

It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.

I love the idea of carrying on some kind of tradition using some of the artifacts from people that touched my life. They're a continuum, too. I still use my father's tools and some of my grandfather's tools. There's a very romantic streak in me. I confess, I'm a romantic, but I like the idea.

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

The guru is a tremendous tradition because is a guide, it's a guide to life, and we can guide energetically, we can guide in our thought, we can have a prayer that travels wonderful things.

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions.

We have a huge institution that celebrates the undistinguished, an institution which is nearly as old as the Papists. It's been going on for millennia. What else is a monarchy but a series of ridiculously exalted figures who are not necessarily distinguished at all? In fact, they have a rather philistine tradition. So perhaps we are more vulnerable to it than other countries.