Culture Quote by James Russell Lowell

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

— Jaroslav Pelikan

Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of…

— George Blake

All tradition is merely the past.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Henry James

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

— Margaret Drabble

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Glenn Gould

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the…

— Joyce Meyer

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

— Gloria Gaither

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own…

— Talal Asad