Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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.
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.
The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and recharge.
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.
It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other.
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.
The saying"Tradition goes on" is anti dynamic and ruins the progress and development of every nation that adheres to it
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
