Century Quote by Chinua Achebe

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

— Maxine Kumin

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

— Franz Marc

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

— Mario Andretti

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Tradition is laziness.

— Gustav Mahler

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

— Glenn Gould

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always…

— Nadia Boulanger

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

— Henry James

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

— James Russell Lowell

Traditions are built by that one person who starts something new and does it over and over again - even if it fails on…

— Antonia Lofaso

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

— Henry James

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

— James Agee