When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. – Brian Eno
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. – Aaron Sorkin
Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition. – Jade Jagger
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. – Alfred North Whitehead
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life – that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction. – Chaim Potok
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. – Alfred Brendel
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn’t consider himself part of a tradition. – Bill Laswell
The tradition and style of the ‘New York Times’ make it very difficult to have objective coverage of China. If we could purchase it, its tone might turn around. – Chen Guangbiao
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day. – Chinua Achebe
The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors. – Amy Adams
The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA. – Candace Parker
John Lee Hancock is someone that I had admired from afar. I think he is a wonderful director… in the tradition I would say both of Clint Eastwood and Frank Capra. – Alison Owen
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you’re 52. – Alice Walker
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators. – Ben Stein
I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation. – Al Franken
Something I’m going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot. – Amy Adams
With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition. – Arlo Guthrie
Since St. Augustine announced that Eve – and, hence, collective woman – was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition. – Barbara G. Walker
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm. – Ashwin Sanghi
I’ve always liked the tradition of publishing work serially in the comic-book ‘pamphlet’ format and then collecting that work in book form, so I’ve just stuck with it. – Adrian Tomine
Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming. – Channing Tatum