I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.
Clint Black

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Claude Debussy

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
Theodore Bikel

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
Jesse Helms

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.
Maude Adams

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
Harri Holkeri

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
Hannah Arendt

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
Natan Sharansky

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.
Paul Tsongas

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.
Betty Shabazz

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Soren Kierkegaard

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

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.
Preston Manning

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
Brad Henry

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
Albert Bushnell Hart

Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.
David E. Price

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
Robert Casey

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
Jan Peter Balkenende

Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations.
Larry Graham