Quotes and Sayings About Tradition
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.
-- Adolf Hitler -
If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.
-- Adolph GottliebSource : "Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, p. 51, 1990.
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You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
-- Alexander McQueenSource : "The McQueen I knew was not a troubled genius" by Alex Bilmes, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.
-- Alexander Vandegrift -
If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
-- Alfred BrendelSource : "Alfred Brendel, A Personal 75th Birthday Selection" by Anthony Holden, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2006.
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The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism.
-- Alfred H. Barr, Jr. -
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
-- Allan Bloom -
This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.
-- Allan BloomSource : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.244, Simon and Schuster
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Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.
-- Amy Lowell -
In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
-- Ang Lee -
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
-- Anne Carson -
If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.
-- Anne Waldman -
It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.
-- Anthony Daniels -
Settling other people's land is an American tradition.
-- Ariel Gore -
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In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.
-- Art Garfunkel -
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : "The Latest Decalogue" l. 19 (1862)
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
The dead govern the living.
-- Auguste ComteSource : Auguste Comte (1875). “System of Positive Polity: Social statics; or, The abstract theory of human order”, p.381
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The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.
-- Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonSource : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin
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God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.
-- Bede Griffiths -
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
-- Bill Laswell -
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To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which arent in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.
-- Bill ShortenSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Come on, Forney.' Novalee, it's a parasite.' But it's a tradition.' It's a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?' Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.
-- Billie Letts -
Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.
-- Billy Graham -
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
-- Bjork -
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No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.
-- Bob Dole