Quotes of: Long-tradition Keyword

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Philip Johnson

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Steve Chabot

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

Wolfgang Puck

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Deepak Chopra

Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity.

Richard Flanagan

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

J. William Fulbright

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Richard Dawkins

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Deepak Chopra

The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.

Donald Wuerl

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

Donna Tartt

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

Elie Wiesel

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

E. O. Wilson

We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

Frank Woolley

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Christopher Lasch

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Ian Mcewan

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

John Catsimatidis

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

Donald A. Norman

The Republicans have a very traditional focus over and over again whether or not it's worked.

Debbie Stabenow

The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.

Eric Braeden

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

Bianca Jagger