Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit..
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions..
Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition..
Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason th….
[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American lyri….
Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it..
Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions..
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practice….
I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods..
My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date..
The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good..
When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British ….
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition..
The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition.
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..
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt..
Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, bu….
The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati..
Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles..
I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore..
As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education..