Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Tradition Quotes

Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.

Great Style Language Logic Tradition

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

N. Scott Momaday

Writing Tradition Choice Blood Write

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

Children Great Giving Tradition Them

Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.

Art Looking Tradition Long Seeing

An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

Think Thinking American Tradition

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Richard Dawkins

Work Faith Children Tradition Will

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

Robert Fitzgerald

Guitar Tradition Meant To Be Kind

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Story Tradition Place Nobody Kind

The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.

Tradition Artist Rise More Role

There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.

Rich Tradition Actor Something Fine

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

Life Politics Theatre Tradition Arts

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Tradition Worship Affirmation Well

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.

War American Tradition Starting Us

All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

History Art Tradition Matter Paint

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

Past Tradition Depend Part Least

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

America Tradition Nothing Easier

If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.

Fatema Mernissi

Women Men Conflict Problem Tradition

I'm such a huge fan of Gap! My mom used to dress me in Gap overalls that I would wear all the time, and now the idea of bringing my son into that tradition is so ironic and full-circle for me.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Son Time Dress Me Mom Tradition

Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented.

Life Teen Tradition Stage Popularity

Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

Money Chaos American Tradition Wall

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

Gustav Heinemann

Face Questions Tradition Authority

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

Tradition Movies Vampire Big Big Fan

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

Great Tradition Kings Storytelling

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.

Good Women Art Men Tradition Same

First Prev 4 567 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next Last

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about Tradition