Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
~By E. T. A. Hoffmann ~
Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.
~By Vince Gill ~
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
~By Ruth Hubbard ~
I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.
~By Ted Kulongoski ~
More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.
~By Mike Pence ~
I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.
~By Saul Steinberg ~
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
~By John Bradshaw ~
We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
~By Barbara Deming ~
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
~By Pam Gems ~
The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.
~By Allen Tate ~
The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.
~By Phillip Noyce ~
I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
~By Fred Melamed ~
I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.
~By Josh Silver ~
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
~By David Bowie ~
Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.
~By Ferdinand Mount ~
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?
~By Dee Hock ~
So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.
~By Mark Rylance ~
We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
~By Jaclyn Smith ~
There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.
~By Andrew Heyward ~
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.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations.
~By Larry Graham ~
If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.
~By Fatos Nano ~
Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.
~By Graham Nash ~
The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
~By Compay Segundo ~
I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.
~By Clint Black ~
I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.
~By LeAnn Rimes ~
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
~By Tom Wopat ~
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.
~By James Hal Cone ~
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
~By Ellen Goodman ~
'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
~By John Goodman ~
My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.
~By Tom Hanks ~
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
~By Henry James ~
Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.
~By Joe Klein ~
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
~By Robert Morris ~
You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.
~By Minnie Driver ~
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.
~By Sonny Rollins ~
Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.
~By Chris Christie ~
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
~By Claude Debussy ~
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
~By Nicholas Culpeper ~
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
~By James Agee ~
I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.
~By Compay Segundo ~
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
~By Naveen Andrews ~
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
~By Pierre Schaeffer ~
We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.
~By Rowan Atkinson ~
I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
~By Fernando Alonso ~
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
~By Arthur M. Schlesinger ~
Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.
~By Betty Shabazz ~
My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
~By Vince Gill ~
It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
~By Vin Diesel ~
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
~By Rick Santorum ~
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
~By Bill Frist ~
I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.
~By Ed O'Brien ~
To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.
~By Marcus Allen ~
My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~
What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.
~By George Woodcock ~
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
~By Cindy Sherman ~
If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.
~By Maude Adams ~
I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
~By Augustus Y. Napier ~
Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
~By Vince Gill ~
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
~By Dennis Banks ~
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
~By Konstantin Stanislavisky ~
My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.
~By Preston Manning ~
To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.
~By Mario Batali ~
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
~By George Crumb ~
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
~By Tadao Ando ~
We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.
~By Bill Irwin ~
You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.
~By Klaus Schulze ~
As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
~By Bjork ~
For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.
~By Spencer Bachus ~
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
~By Cal Thomas ~
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
~By Larry Elder ~
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
~By Donna Tartt ~
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