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Tradition Quotes

What we carry forward, and why it matters.

Tradition here is personal and inherited - a performer noting South India's deep arts culture, and a Sikh explaining the religious tradition of never cutting one's hair. Related reading: Family.

The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised...

Quotes by Tadashi Yanai

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

Quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.

Quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I have learned a great deal from the theatrical side of Covent Garden. The Paris Opera Ballet is more concerned with technique. It's perfect. It's beautiful. It's well done. But it lacks the theatrical tradition that is so important in...

Quotes by Sylvie Guillem

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

Quotes by Sxip Shirey

Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and...

Quotes by Susan Stewart

Gujarat is a state which gave shelter to Parsi community who came from Iran; this is not the tradition and heritage of Gujarat.

Quotes by Subramanian Swamy

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Quotes by Steven Strogatz

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high...

Quotes by Steven Van Zandt

The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake...

Quotes by Steven Moffat

Anyone who thinks sports are ruled by athletes need only think of American sports' most enduring tradition: Immediately after a championship, as the champagne sprays and the confetti falls, the trophy is passed not to the team captain but most...

Quotes by Steve Rushin

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

Quotes by Steve Sabol

The Doors formed on the beaches of Los Angeles, in what you might imagine is the tradition of local rock bands since the Beach Boys.

Quotes by Steve Erickson

Born in the silent era, with the first ceremony hosted by Douglas Fairbanks at the Roosevelt Hotel, the Oscars are a tradition in a business that doesn't have much of it, and the biggest spectacle in a business that's often...

Quotes by Steve Erickson

I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark on the course of American music, particularly in the tradition of what you might call the...

Quotes by Steve Forbert

The 'Evening News' is going to have a long run, both as a broadcast and as a presence online and on cellphones. It is a franchise with a very rich tradition.

Quotes by Steve Capus

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.

Quotes by Sterling K. Brown

I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition.

Quotes by Steve Alford

Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.

Quotes by Stephen Kinzer

Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made.

Quotes by Stephen Kinzer

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about being overlooked despite a strong cultural tradition?
Yes: "Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India." It's a personal observation about being excluded despite a region's artistic heritage.
Is there a quote about religious tradition?
Yes: "I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban." It's a respectful, firsthand description of a Sikh religious practice.
Is there a politically charged quote about tradition and gun rights?
Yes - one real quote frames gun rights as under political threat, stating that certain named senators, "given the chance - would indeed wipe out our tradition of the right to keep and bear arms." This is presented here strictly as that individual speaker's own political opinion, not a fact or position this page takes or endorses.
Is there a quote about film school and creative influences tied to tradition?
Yes, one describes the tradition of an AFI film program, recalling how "you make three cycle films your first year, and then you make a thesis film your second year," and being "blown away" watching Darren Aronofsky's early cycle films.
Where can I find more quotes about heritage, family, or history?
Try Family quotes and History quotes for related themes, or Long quotes for other long-standing, enduring ideas.

One line even traces a film-school tradition, the cycle films every student makes before their thesis year. See also History and Great.