Tradition Quotes - Page 26

• A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Education, Ideas, Yesterday

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• I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Office, Religion

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• Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Government, Effort

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• I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me I got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. That's when we're going to fight... There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher 'that might not necessarily be true.' That's never happened. There are no scientists picketing out front of churches. There's been this coexistence forever, so to have religious communities knocking down the science door, there's something wrong there.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Fear, Teaching

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess that we disown the devil, his pomp, and his angels. After this we are immersed three times, making a somewhat larger pledge than the Lord appointed in the Gospel. Then we are taken up [a reference to the Roman tradition of recognizing a newborn baby as a member of the family]. We first taste a mixture of milk and honey and from that day we refrain from the daily bath for a whole week.

  Tertullian

  Baby, Taken, Angel

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• The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit

  Origen

  Giving, Water, Baptism

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• In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

  Peter Drucker

  Teaching, Skills, Forgotten

  Peter F. Drucker (1999). “Adventures of a Bystander”, p.81, Transaction Publishers

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• Islam is a vibrant faith. Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions. Our enemy does not. Our enemy doesn't follow the great traditions of Islam. They've hijacked a great religion.

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, Honor, Enemy

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• Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.

  Francis Ouimet

  Golf, Games, Sportsmanship

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• The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

  James Carlton

  Ocean, Years, Sea

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• My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

  Maya Lin

  College, Artist, Parent

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• [The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

  Mark Twain

  Religion, Fables, Mass

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• This is about putting education absolutely in the centre of enterprise and then using the traditions of Birmingham to inspire and grow. If you have knowledge and business linked together you will grow well, you go further down the innovative path and actually you create more and more jobs. Those jobs will only be available for people with skills but they will be real sustainable employments. That is how important innovation is.

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Jobs, Real, College

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• Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

  Calvin Trillin

  Jewish Tradition, Giving, Vampire

  Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.64, Random House

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• Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Sports, Competition, Coveting

  "The Latest Decalogue" l. 19 (1862)

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• I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers and students both-but they did not come up with many new concepts. They weren't invited to come up with new concepts. Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

  John Templeton

  Teacher, Teaching, Optimistic

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, June 1, 1999.

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• Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

  John Templeton

  Teaching, Optimistic, Church

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1999.

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• Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

  Ruth Hubbard

  Real, World, Relation

  Ruth Hubbard, Mary Sue Henifin, Barbara Fried (1982). “Biological woman--the convenient myth: a collection of feminist essays and a comprehensive bibliography”, Schenkman Books

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• As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

  Laura Nyro

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Way

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• America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor.

  Helen Boosalis

  Simple, America, Long

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• Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.

  Guy Cook

  Advertising, Young, Backgrounds

  Guy Cook (2001). “The Discourse of Advertising”, p.6, Psychology Press

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• Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment.

  Charles A. Reich

  Country, Technology, Men

  "The Greening of America". Book by Charles A. Reich, 1970.

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• With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.

  William Buckland

  Taken, Writing, Science

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• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.

  Michel Foucault

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

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• Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it.

  Dennis McKinsey

  Jesus, Real, Believe

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