Quotes About Tradition

'The Price Is Right,' it was an honor to be offered it because it's such an American institution. To be able to carry on this tradition with a show that has been on for so long, I thought it was a great opportunity for me.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.

India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.

Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.

Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.

The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.

The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a set of creedal statements is a lot less important, because I realize the Christian movement thrived then and can now on other elements of the tradition.

A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time.

City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile.

There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition'.

Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership.

When I was a young priest in the 1960s and 1970s, there was much experimentation and confusion in the Church. Teachers and clergy were encouraged to communicate an experience of God's love, but to do it without reference to the Creed, the sacraments, or the tradition.