Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband’s girlfriend.

Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past — no matter how good it was.

Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.

I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist’s pride and the philistine’s vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must...

[…] a familiar art historical narrative […] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. […] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition...

It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world’s disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with...

Takamasa Saegusa: ‘Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. Cut off...

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the...

It preoccupies me until it’s time to leave. It seems such the right expression of grief. I am sad, so in whatever small way I can, I will tear myself apart. They’ve taken what’s on...

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

The questions that we must ask ourselves, and that our historians and our children will ask of us, are these: How will what we create compare with what we inherited? Will we add to our...

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told...

I have a feeling that we’ve seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we’re looking into the void. We thought that we were liberating people from oppressive cultural circumstances, but we were,...

For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.

It’s like an NFL tradition.

An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked...

T.S. Eliot deems dangerous the tendency “to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return to some previous condition which we imagine as having...

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come...

This is an incredibly diverse state. There are a lot of different immigrant groups that all bring their own traditions with them.

… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having...

And,” Amber said, practically drooling as she ogled him, “it’s tradition for new arrivals to help with the pep rally.”Brooklyn quirked her lips in doubt. “Tradition?””It’s a new tradition,” Amber shot back.”Clearly the deeper meaning...

Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one’s mind not be a blank slate but already properly...

Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let’s be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you’re leaving and will need something that always connects you...

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

It’s tough when markets change and your people within the company don’t.

When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition.

One of the most important elements in the evolution of human institutions is the emergence of the difficult customer within the system itself, the radical who starts to question its very being, the reformer who...

I respect traditional people – they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it...

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

I’m not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

Religion, which was obviously created to give meaning and purpose to people, has become part of the oppression. This is true in both Eastern and Western religious traditions. The Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad were all...

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

Coach Simpson did that when I played and it worked out pretty well, so I’m carrying on the tradition.

There is a very strong theatre-going tradition in Moscow. It has stayed strong.

I was so raw I didn’t know about the Lambeau Leap-a Packer player celebrates catching a touchdown by leaping into the stands. It was started by Leroy Butler years before and has been copied by...

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

We intended for the ‘Ultimate Spider-Man’and all the Ultimate Annuals– to continue the tradition set by their monthly counterparts: Top creators giving the readership solid stories, beautifully illustrated.

And how am I supposed to find a husband if I can’t have a boyfriend until then?” I asked ironically.