Quotes about Tradition
On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.
- Barack Obama
Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
- Maya Angelou
My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
- Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
- Billy Sunday
I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.
- Arianna Huffington
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
- Jay-Z
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
- Gracie Gold
Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
- Alice Walker
The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.
- Nelson Mandela
An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.
- Pope Benedict XVI
An old Apache storyteller reminds us
- Joseph Campbell
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
- Samuel Johnson