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Tradition Quotes

Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.

Fatema Mernissi

Painting Believe Rich Tradition Only

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'

Me Tradition Doing Christmas Up

I came from a tradition where souls were a theological reality, not a faith reality. Souls were for saving, not for communing. Souls were for converting and, once they were converted, they were to be left alone. Souls were too mystical, too subjective, too ambiguous, too risky, too... well, you know - New Age-ish.

Faith Alone Reality Tradition You

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Style American Tradition Canada

There's a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over the House in 1994 and has continued forward, that you dare not vote against the Republican Party even if you're voting against your own initiatives and your own interests.

Forward Voting Tradition You House

The great tradition of Delhi can be seen through its cuisine.

Great Tradition Through Seen Delhi

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Daniel Barenboim

Death Speak Tradition Dead Poorly

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

Henning Mankell

Work Love Tradition You Within Many

There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.

Tradition Long Been Who Moscow List

Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.

Best People Chocolate Tradition Look

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

Writing Tradition Speech Lost Write

'Big Night' is the best food movie ever made. It's such a celebration of food, and the Italian tradition of celebrating people. Plus, everything looked delicious!

Food Best People Night Tradition

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Experience Man Tradition Earth Birth

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

Food City Tradition Here Because

Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's the only way to get inside the characters and make the narrative work. It's a storytelling tradition, and I think to come off as genuine then you have to really approach it that way.

Work Think Tradition You Genuine

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

Tradition Physics 1920s Quantum Had

For whatever reason, I encounter Canadian whiskey at hunting camps way more often than I do in restaurants, bars, or homes. Could be the lower price. Could be the mellow character, which lends itself to long hours of fireside sipping. Or it could just be tradition.

Character Tradition Long Price Way

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

Day Tradition Always Costume Last

I'd like to start a tradition of getting No. 1s - how 'bout that?

Start Tradition Like How Getting

There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.

Work Tradition Opinions Box Out

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

Myself I Am Me Tradition Long Line

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

Vivienne Westwood

Tradition You Away Proof Throw

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition.

Myself Poetry Think Tradition Down

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Practice Chance Learn Tradition You

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