Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it’s a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don’t know why. – Adele
I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials – considering it’s a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition – I think it’s the best editorial page around. It’s quite balanced. – Charles Krauthammer
The president welcomes peaceful protests – it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that’s why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm. – Ari Fleischer
Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue. – Al Franken
Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition. – Chaske Spencer
There’s no tradition today except initials, ‘CSI,’ ‘NCIS,’ all the rest. Even with reruns today, people don’t know there was a ‘Dick Van Dyke Show,’ or ‘Andy Griffith,’ or ‘Cheers.’ – Bill Cosby
Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal. – David Shields
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. – Christopher Dawson
The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union. – Mark Rutte
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition. – F. Sionil Jose
The great divide is not between faiths, but one between intolerant zealots of any tradition and the large numbers of decent, peaceful believers likewise found in each tradition. – Nicholas Kristof
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of. – Ednita Nazario
Wimbledon is the most prestigious tournament we have, and being able to win it with all the tradition, that’s always been a dream of mine. – Daniel Nestor
Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is ‘objectivist’ – values are in inherent in production. – Murray Rothbard
As a Member of Congress, I’ve continued my family’s tradition of focusing on education. – Mark Kennedy
For God’s sake build not your faith upon Tradition, ’tis as rotten as a rotten Post. – Nicholas Culpeper
That’s why we’re doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don’t have anything against it (Halloween), but it’s not our tradition. – Fernando Flores
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. – N. Scott Momaday
I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day. – David Millar
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
As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition. – Eugene Kennedy
You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I’ll take the best of Christianity … From there we can build. – Feisal Abdul Rauf
‘Robopocalypse’ joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein’s monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there’s the Terminator. – Daniel H. Wilson
There’s a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible. – Evan Osnos