Quotes of Tradition - somelinesforyou

“ Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. ”

- Barbara Tober

“ 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. ”

- Ellen Goodman

“ Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right. ”

- Kurt Herbert Alder

“ Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ”

- Lewis Mumford

“ A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you. ”

- Dr. Rob Gilbert

“ Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of. ”

- Ellen Goodman

“ As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. ”

- Allan Bloom

“ Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. ”

- Kate Chopin

“ Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back — it is already so far. ”

- Alice Meynell

“ A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ In America nothing dies easier than tradition. ”

- Russell Wayne Baker

“ It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. ”

- Stephen Bayley

“ Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. ”

- Arthur Hugh Clough

“ Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world. ”

- Bede Griffiths

“ Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living. ”

- Harold Macmillan

“ Tradition is the illusion of permanance. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance. ”

- James Lafferty
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