It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.