Quotes About Tradition

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

One must overcome history by dogma.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

History is more or less bunk.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

History is as Old as My Grandfather

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

History is the third parent.

I am a fan of history.

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.