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Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.
For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.
One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'
Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.
Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.
We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether
An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.
I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.
My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.
The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.
Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.
More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.
Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.
Even though there's a lot of horror from Asia in the American cinematic tradition, I hadn't seen Asians at the center of it.
Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.
The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.