Tradition Quotations | Page 2

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started.

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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

Denmark as a country has always looked up to England. I've always felt that British actors are fantastic. There's a strong theatre tradition in your country, and that is reflected in TV and film as well. We've always thought that for crime series, you were the masters, and the general feeling the Danes have of British drama is that it's excellent.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture - we don't have what the Jews have, which is a rabbinical tradition that allows you to ask questions. We also don't have the church tradition that the Christians have.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.

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.

I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.

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

The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won't change easily overnight.

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.

In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.

The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate.

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

There is an increasing push to compartmentalize faith separately from our life in the public square - and it's not possible - at least, it's not possible if we continue the American tradition of true individual freedom, which also implies individual responsibility. Without an objective moral standard, that's not possible.

The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

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

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same.

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

We appreciate dialogue with all of our customers. Ford is proud of its tradition of treating all with respect, and we remain focused on what we do best - building and selling the most innovative cars and trucks.

We stress El Camino tradition all the time. It's our job to hold court at home like so many of the past El Camino teams did. EC pride means simply not losing.

We started a tradition now. We're ready to start winning. I'm proud of the girls. They did a great job this year.

Whether they are talented or not they know what has been done before and they expect to win. These guys find a way to win. Part of that is the tradition of Flower Mound. They are going to do what it takes to make sure they are not the ones to drop the ball.

We respect Omar's decision and we support him. Any coach would love to have an Omar Jacobs for another year, but we know his desire is to play professionally. We really appreciate his efforts in helping us re-establish a winning tradition at BGSU.

We're going to play hard for them. We have to play hard and try to keep the tradition going.

When we give what we can and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.

What he gave to this franchise, this city and this state, for 18 years, puts him among the elite athletes to have played professional sports. No. 31 in the rafters adds another legacy to the great tradition of Indiana basketball.

What's special is the great tradition in our program. To be in the same fraternity as Dave Gunther - and surpass him - is simply great.

We're just really excited to get that opportunity. To be the first team at College Park to set that tradition and win that title, it's just such an honor. I'm glad I'm a part of it.

We're getting donations from all across the world. The legacy, the history, the tradition that spring from this place are incredibly powerful.

To play a first half like we played tonight shows a lack of pride. I feel strongly about the tradition we have here at Toledo, and we're letting that tradition down big time.

Throughout the process, I continued to be impressed with the fact that he was winning at programs with far less resources and tradition than what exists at Murray State.

We're ready to play, whether it's Purvis or anyone. But Purvis is a great way to start, with the tradition that we have. You can throw any speculation out the window; the games have always been close.

We know about the tradition here and all that good stuff. We've just got to make plays. That's what it comes down to. We know there's a lot of good defenses here in the past, and we feel like we're one of those teams.

We know we have to win these last three games. It's huge. It's sort of the tradition of Arizona basketball, and we don't want to be the team that let this down and was the team that didn't get the 20 wins and that berth in the NCAA tournament. We definitely want to keep that going.

We know how great they are and the great tradition and all that stuff. But when we step on that field, we're playing our game.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.

Wow. That's my dream. I take a lot of pride in being from Montana State. I know how much it means to the community and the state. I would hate to see someone from outside of the family, somebody who doesn't have pride in the program and know the tradition of it (get the job).

We're still champions, even though I was not on the team that won last year. It says Vermont on my jersey, and we're trying to carry that tradition on.

We're staying put, ... Nobody took any pleasure asking candidates not to go to another state. All we are asking is to preserve our tradition going back to 1920 and a Feb. 1 primary assures us of having that.

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Whenever they tied it up, we were able to get another goal to preserve the lead. If we went down, I don't know if we would have come back on them. Poly is just so rich in water polo tradition ---- that might have done something to us.

We wanted to win Metro to continue our legacy. It's keeping the tradition going that was passed on from (former players) Jamal (Crawford), Rod (Stewart), D. Hudson and David King. It's all about passing the torch and keeping it going.

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

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

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

We are all just really excited to get back on track. This program has a huge tradition of success and some of us feel like we let that tradition down last year. There is a renewed level of energy and effort to go out there and prove ourselves.

Women mystery writers took a genre that before that had been exclusively male and transformed it. The tradition of the male private eye goes all the way back in literature to the lone man on the edge of society with a moral conscience, saving people's lives. In 1977 Marcia Muller wrote the first female sleuth who was a hard-core professional crime solver.

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.

We also wanted to have it during a big game against a tradition rival like the Redskins.

Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers...

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

We are here in the best tradition of Ronald Reagan, begging the party to do the right thing. The party cannot have it both ways. This is a fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party.

There is a respect for tradition and traditional motifs. But there are also many who bring stylized traditional forms, not just the shape, to their work.

There are families who have lots of kids who go to Harvard, ... I don't know too many who have five go. What was unusual about (the Chavezes) was that it was a no-college-background family. It's not only a no-Harvard-tradition (family), there was no college tradition in the family.

We tried really hard to get things right, to honor and respect the tradition of the geisha.

There are a lot of constituencies we want to help: the players, the officials and the fans. This means more help for the officials, more strategy for the players and more intrigue for the fans. We need to marry tradition with innovation.

There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.

When I emerged Liverpool had a tradition of their players working hard and playing hard, back before the Nineties and through all the glory era.

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one (I can sense that continuously, which is why I can say that I know this for sure) to sense that connectedness with the one consciousness that pervades the universe, which in some traditions is called God, to sense that frees you of fear, from anxiety, and takes you to a very deep place of peace, but also of heightened aliveness.