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Tradition Quotes

We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.

John Hickenlooper

Government People Tradition Amendment

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

Carter G. Woodson

History World Thought Tradition Race

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

Writing Tradition Country Even Much

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Future Path Men Past Tradition

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

Tradition Treasure Participation Up

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

Innovation Art Tradition Sheep Flock

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Science Tradition Back Going Stories

There is a very strong theatre-going tradition in Moscow. It has stayed strong.

Strong Tradition Moscow Very Stayed

As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things.

Art Tradition Appearance New Old

I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that it's always done, judge.' I never found anything in the oath I took or the statutes I was asked to look at that said, 'Judge, stop thinking, because this is the way it was done before.'

Me Thinking Judge Tradition Look

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

Edsger Dijkstra

I Am Proud Thinking Tradition Long

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

Pope Benedict XVI

Action Tradition Right Reason Norms

Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.

Beginning Society Voice Tradition

Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

Culture Rich Tradition India Never

My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning, to question the relevance of it.

Shahzia Sikander

Purpose Painting Tradition Meaning

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

New York People City Tradition Long

India has a very good tradition in tennis.

Good Tradition India Tennis Very

Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.

Tradition You Done Want Difficulties

The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday.

Sterling K. Brown

Birthday Time Tradition Year Run

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

Wisdom Tradition Civilization Source

There is clearly a Christian New Testament tradition that warns against praying loudly in the front of the temple where everyone can see you.

Christian Tradition You New Temple

When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition'.

Myself I Am Think Tradition Crime

Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.

Together World Fashion Tradition Out

Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants.

Richard Preston

Plants Plant Tradition Never Contact

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