Top Tradition Quotes
I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
Aaron Allston
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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
James W. Fulbright
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
Ted Rall
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
Robert Motherwell
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
Aaron Allston 
70% of people like this quote
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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
65% of people like this quote
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.
James W. Fulbright
61% of people like this quote
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
Ted Rall
60% of people like this quote
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
Robert Motherwell
60% of people like this quote
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.
Rowan Atkinson
60% of people like this quote
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
Robert Fitzgerald
60% of people like this quote
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Michael Moriarty
59% of people like this quote
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
Peter Davison
59% of people like this quote
Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
Hans Bender
59% of people like this quote
Popular Tradition Authors
Mason CooleyWinston ChurchillGilbert K. ChestertonDavid Herbert LawrenceRobert Louis StevensonW. Somerset MaughamWoody AllenLoretta LynnArthur EricksonHenry FordAlfred North WhiteheadSoren KierkegaardTheodore BikelBrian EnoWynton Marsalis
Emma GoldmanHenry JamesHannah ArendtAndy WarholKathleen TurnerBruce SpringsteenRon PaulHarold PinterWilliam GlasserGeorge WaldChristian Lous LangeEsa-Pekka SalonenDonna TarttRyszard KapuscinskiJames Hillman
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