Tradition Quotes - Page 6

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.

Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

Americans, Poles, and the nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty. We must work together to confront forces, whether they come from inside or out, from the South or the East, that threaten over time to undermine the values and to erase the bonds of culture, faith and tradition that make us who we are.

Come on, Forney.' Novalee, it's a parasite.' But it's a tradition.' It's a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?' Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.

My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being accompanied by a second-order tradition-that of critically discussing the myth. ... In a certain sense, science is myth-making just as religion is.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Tradition is a very powerful force.