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.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

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

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.