Tradition Quotes

• For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

  

  Simon Beaufoy
  • Way
  • Tradition
  • Delicate

• To cite one well-known example of this ignorance of Jewish customs: Mark 7:3 indicates that the Pharisees “and all the Jews” washed their hands before eating, so as to observe “the tradition of the elders.” This is not true: most Jews did not engage in this ritual. If Mark had been a Jew, or even a gentile living in Palestine, he certainly would have known this.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Ignorance
  • Jews
  • Customs

• Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Progress

• There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this country against all the odds.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Country
  • Independent
  • Wonderful

• Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.

  

  Wylie Dufresne
  • Opportunity
  • Tradition
  • Culinary

• It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Black
  • Belief
  • Poet

• Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today it is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

  

  Alan Menken
  • Work
  • Tradition
  • Dramatic

• It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • American
  • Tradition
  • View

• Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

  

  Miller Williams
  • Important
  • Tradition
  • Ritual

• It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • War
  • Language
  • Discovery

• I married a woman who loves to camp, and I am what you would call "indoorsy"... My wife always brings up, "Camping's a tradition in my family." Hey, it was a tradition in everyone's family 'til we came up with the house.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • House
  • Wife
  • Married

• With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.

  

  William Buckland
  • Writing
  • Humans
  • Evidence

• The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Book
  • Truth
  • Reason

• Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Experience
  • American
  • Baseball

• The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Christian
  • Memory
  • Characters

• By 18th century standards, they Great Britain were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages and highest living standard, and probably the most engagement between the populace and the government of any country. Then the United States took those same qualities to the nth degree, and the British were suddenly appeared stodgy and tradition-bound.

  

  Charles R. Morris
  • Country
  • Quality
  • Challenges

• I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it. I mean, if you're going to compare him to somebody, it's Shakespeare in terms of centrality of the tradition, in being at the beginning of it.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Important
  • Mean
  • Jazz

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

  

  Sharad Pawar
  • Tradition
  • Treats
  • Host

• Could come to terms with aspects of my past without those terms being set by the Foundation’s unexamined Freudian tradition, which pathologized women’s experience when it didn’t fit the great man’s theory.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Experience
  • Tradition
  • Aspects

• Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

  

  Norman Jewison
  • Generation
  • Tradition
  • Breaking

• In this connection I should stress that the discovery of the empty tomb appears to be a late tradition. It occurs in Mark for the first time, some thirty-five or forty years after Jesus died. Our earliest witness, Paul, does not say anything about it.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Jesus
  • Connection
  • Discovery

• The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • People
  • World
  • Peace

• How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Culture
  • Honor
  • Habit

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

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Tradition

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