Best Tradition Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.”

“There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.”

Art Strong Given Black White Tradition Size Population Australia Black And White Cartoonist

Book:Oliphant's Anthem

Source: Oliphant's Anthem

“Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes.”

Wells Country Values Speak Study Tradition Jew Myth Screens Empires Archetype

Author:Neal Gabler

“The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.”

Years States Feelings Age Form Strong Religious Glory Europe Tradition Ancient Devotion Protected Sanctity Territorial Fatherland

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.”

People Men Said Can Do Tradition British They Said Parliament Quebec Referendums Confederation

Author:Jacques Parizeau

“I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence.”

Thinking Knows Men May Self Past Color Tradition Distinction Assured Navy Turquoise

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.”

May Art Said Belief Tradition Maxims Interpreting

Author:Michael Polanyi

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

Tradition Treats Be Good Host

Author:Sharad Pawar

“The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.”

Littles Church Situation Fields Tradition Complicated Islamic Scholarship Priesthood

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.”

Source Tradition Honorable Ruined Blair

Author:Ted Rall

“Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.”

Results Democracy Tradition Election Democratic Iraq Saddam

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.”

People Thinking Humans Important Stories Sides Dark Fire Violence Fashion Human Nature Sitting Tradition Diets Cynicism Brutality Dark Side Sitting Around Staples

Author:Eric Stoltz

“In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.”

Should Art Ideas Europe Tradition

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.”

Thinking Needs Writing Persons Self Would Be Walks Fiction Ignorance Equal Tradition Tasks Lifetime Library Average Genuine Genre Novelists Arrogance Bookstores Average Person Hubris

Author:Laura Lippman

“In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.”

“If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.”

Ifs Want Helping Christian Past Memories Clear Safe Areas Tradition Past Memories

Author:Pope Francis

“We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.”

Long Self Nations Weapons Gun Tradition Defense Convinced Combat Heritage Hunting Ownership Self Defense Recreation Colorado Gun Ownership Outdoor Recreation

Author:Mark Udall

“The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.”

People Way Broken Tradition Institutions Senate

Author:Tom Udall

“I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.”

People Able Stuff Tradition Traditional Southern Topics American Music

Author:Gillian Welch

“The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.”

World Looks Courses Fans Events Masters Tradition Golf Golfers Augusta

Author:Mike Weir

“I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.”

Thinking Men Needs Mind Kind Sports He Man Tradition Glamour Skating Sparkle

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.”

Long Ends Country Water Advice Standing Tradition Edges Senators

Author:Mitt Romney

“The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.”

Today Highest Tradition Parks Public Service National Parks

Author:Stewart Udall

“The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.”

World Art Culture Belief Christianity Creativity Virtue Effects Theory Tradition Tyranny Artistic Historic Art World Avant Garde Autonomous Cumulative Patronage Irrelevance

Author:John Walford

“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.”

Seems Age Christian Desire Artist Culture Christianity Generations Fashion Stupid Late Picks Tradition Oneself Relevant Secular Short Sighted Unchristian

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.”

Mean Eye Artist Order Beauty Inspire Goodness Tradition Ancient Rome Viewers Greece Captured Ancient Greece Greece And Rome

Author:John Walford

“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.”

World Mind Form Artist Order Beauty Principles Taken Particular Materials Pure Shadow Ideals Tradition Absolutes Harmony Mere Inspired Bounds Cosmos Idealism Defects Representing Platonic

Author:John Walford

“Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown”

People Way Inspirational Seeing Buddhism Protect Tradition Fragile Immensity Family Tradition

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.”

Ifs Want Should Writing Years Long Book Real Ends Wanted Dies Novel Impossible Goes On Tradition Tragedy Wounds Real Life Scar Conventional Happy Endings Old Wounds

Author:Willa Cather

“I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.”

Nations Records Grew Grew Up Highest Tradition Treasure Voters Engagement Participation Civics Minnesota Civic Engagement

Author:Al Franken

“Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.”

Two Proud Tradition Senators Committees Minnesota

Author:Al Franken

“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.”

Knows Has Beens Memories Christianity Tradition Spread Accuracy

Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette

“I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.”

Fighting Nice Rights Tradition Roots Civil Rights Twins Sensibility Vikings Minnesota Minnesotans

Author:Al Franken

“My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.”

Said Wanted Mother Father Tradition Scholar Family Tradition

Author:Norman Lamm

“I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.”

Important Tradition Anthem National Anthem Singing The National Anthem

Author:Kate Mara

“All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.”

Moments Difficult Religious Silence Quiet Tradition Artistic Contemplative Quiet Moments

Author:David Whyte

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

Social Fiction Novel Serious Tradition Earnest

Author:John Hodgman

“Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.”

Knows Stuff Records Tradition Gold England Photograph Awards Bathroom

Author:Adele

“The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.”

Generations Tradition Nightmare

Author:Karl Marx

“Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.”

Way Country Past Language Forget Tradition Command Symbols

Author:Slobodan Milosević

“Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.”

Way Written Tradition Stronger Marvelous Storyteller Oral Tradition

Author:N. Scott Momaday

“Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the hearts of people who are somewhat cut off from the life of the Church and who have no special understanding of faith. All that is required is to 'illuminate' these actions and 'purify' this tradition so that it may become part of the life of the Church today.”

People Heart May Today Action Moving Understanding Church Prayer Cutting Special Tradition Rooted Piety Church Today

Book:Questions and Answers

Source: Questions and Answers

“Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.”

Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

“I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!”

Has Beens Doubt Authority Tradition Assuming Rejects Proven Antiquity Doubting Everything

Author:Giordano Bruno

“Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.”

Ifs Knows Men Tradition Progressive Ancestor

Author:Walter Lippmann

“I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.”

Want Stills Tradition Monsters Exceptional

Author:Georg Baselitz

“The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.”

Firsts Language Morality Tradition Loyalty Representation Affinity

Author:Jayne Anne Phillips

“John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.”

Years Wells Games Wish Technology Cutting Groups Development Projects Tradition Edges Currents Studios Brilliant Fortunate Colleagues Programmers Departure Resigned Cutting Edge

Author:Tim Willits

“The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.”

Music Is Tradition Continuing Classical Music

Book:Critical Entertainments

Source: Critical Entertainments

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