Tradition Quotes - Page 17

As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.

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

Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is "All the Things You Are," you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure.

The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the character to the performer.

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

When I started out I was definitely more traditional. It was 1988. Everyone was doing the Jerry Seinfeld.

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.

Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.

We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender.

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

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.

The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.