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Tradition Quotes

"That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition."

Fernando Flores, Chilean Politician

Tradition, Traditions

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"If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions."

Maude Adams, American Actress

Tradition, Traditions

"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

Tradition, Traditions

"I keep up the tradition, the zydeco."

Boozoo Chavis, American Musician

"Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right."

Mel Ott, American Athlete

Tradition, Right, Wrong

"If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed."

Alfred Brendel, Austrian Musician

"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

Tradition, Custom

"Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build."

Ferdinand Mount, British Writer

Tradition, Flexibility, Generations, Stability, Traditions

"I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

Tradition, Traditions

"Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead."

Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian Musician

"I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles."

Debbie Harry, American Musician

"I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years."

Hans Kung, Swiss Theologian

Tradition, Years

"Tradition is a guide and not a jailer."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

"There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair."

Ted Rall, American Cartoonist

"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."

Ellen Goodman, American Journalist

Tradition, Deep, Traditions

"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Tradition, Thanksgiving

"The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition."

Roger Clemens, American Athlete

Tradition, Cities, Future, Play

"Aristocracy is always cruel."

Wendell Phillips, American Activist

Tradition, Aristocracy

"The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day."

Waverley Lewis Root, American Journalist

Tradition, Day, Destiny, Turkey

"Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Tradition, Culture, Values, Change, Protection

"Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

Tradition, Deals, Film

"Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create."

Ed Parker, American Athlete

Tradition, Study

"Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

"In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories."

Yannick Noah, French Athlete

Tradition, Europe

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