Tradition Quotes

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

~ Samuel Johnson

When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.

~ George Cabot Lodge

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

~ Scott Adams

Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.

~ Nick Clegg

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

~ George Wald

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.

~ Ron Paul

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

~ Richard Lamm

One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

~ Zooey Deschanel

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

~ Julie Burchill

In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick's grandfather's house where they were having the big Christmas dinner, and they have this tradition of this thing called oyster stew.

~ Megan Mullally

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

~ Michael Polanyi

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

~ Chinua Achebe

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

~ Daniel Barenboim

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

~ Björk

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

~ Richard Dawkins

What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

~ Radhanath Swami

Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

~ Hamza Yusuf

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

~ Eamon De Valera

Tradition has made women cowardly.

~ Nance O'neil

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

~ Henry James

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

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

~ Alton Brown

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

~ Alan Gregg

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

~ Robert Dallek

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

~ Mohit Chauhan

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

~ Edward Zwick

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

~ Daniela Ruah

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

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

~ Herbert Croly

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

~ Benazir Bhutto

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

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.

~ Twyla Tharp

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

~ Winston Churchill

The United States has a long tradition of preserving the all-American outdoor experience, dating back to the days of President Theodore Roosevelt.

~ Sarah Huckabee Sanders

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

~ Sam Harris

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

~ Rory Stewart

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

~ Khaled Hosseini