Top 1200 Oral Tradition Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part of that tradition.

I have a certain tradition here at the GQ awards. Every year I pick the best-looking man and bestow upon him my kiss.

The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.

Tradition or not, I sometimes thought putting children on an old guy’s lap was already creepy enough. We didn’t need to mix alcohol into it.

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.

I was raised in a Baptist tradition, but then I went to an Episcopalian high school, and they were very accepting of people of all faiths.

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

I like the sentimentality of 'Miracle on 34th Street' and all those movies, and there actually is a tradition of Christmas comedies, too.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

I had one of the best nights of my life in a restaurant called Barclay Prime. It was a steak house that mixed modern with tradition.

To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.

Guajira, colombiana, milonga, rumba - all these styles are flamenco. They're part of the musical tradition in my country, and they are in Latin America too.

I think that for a lot of us gay people, we do feel that pop is our music. We identify with it and its iconography, and that's been a tradition.

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

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

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

We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

I kind of always made it a tradition, whenever Dream Theater played Toronto, to play a Rush cover.

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

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

I still have the tradition of Sunday dinners at my house, and I make all kinds of different Italian foods, and there's a lot of fun going on.

I mean, Frank Sinatra is one of the great performers in pop music history. Why shouldn't I be delighted to carry on his tradition?

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

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

There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this country against all the odds.

There is clearly a Christian New Testament tradition that warns against praying loudly in the front of the temple where everyone can see you.