The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social life that cannot be provided by the self-interest of economic enterprise or required by the mandate of political institutions.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers.
You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.
In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder. " We are the keepers of tradition.
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.
I'm a product of a Notre Dame education; those professors taught me a lot about how you separate the city of God from the state. I'm also a reverent follower of the tradition of Thomas Jefferson. My years of public life have simply confirmed the intensity of my belief that what I have learned from Joe Evans and Thomas Jefferson was correct.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.
I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.
We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.
Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.