Tradition Quotes - Page 9

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.