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.

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...

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.

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

Don’t try to prove to everybody that the reason why you can’t is that nobody could. It’s no excuse. You can break the tradition by being the first person to make it happen!

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice...

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. […] In...

There is no creation without tradition; the ‘new’ is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.

I am an anarch in space, a metahistorian in time. Hence I am committed to neither the political present nor tradition; I am blank and also open and potent in any direction. Dear old Dad,...

I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life’s factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts,...

Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You’ll find out

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it’s “tradition.

It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will...

Je suis comme un pont fragile, reliant à travers l’infini le passé et le présent. Je serre la main maternelle. Je ne peux pas la laisser échapper, car sans moi ma mère serait seule.

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.

With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? – A.Y.’I’m going to...

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood...

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done...

If you just go by records and stats, it looks like we should be the final two. That makes it special. The traditions behind both schools makes it an interesting basketball game.

Law, religion and tradition condemns and murders while grace justifies and saves

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 that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of...

unnecessary, divisive and utterly inconsistent with our constitutional traditions.

It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama: fathers and sons,...

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus’ day.

MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the...

We believe that a man does not have to be devoted to the winning side for his loyalty to be celebrated with reverence.

I think a lot of this is about traditions.

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

I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Sufism is experiential

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

They’ve always had a great tradition. It’s great to be a part of something like that. I think it’s a town, a community and a school that wants to get back to it.

Until we put off the garment of law and tradition and put on that of relationship and grace, we’ll be living under the bondage of religion

Peace-phobia is the outcome of nationalism and religion; while homophobia is the outcome of traditions and religion.

I’m offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that’s all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it’s not really that intense or even that serious, but...

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.