Tradition Quotes - Page 4

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism.

I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.'

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

All tradition is merely the past.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.

Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

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

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.