Any Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

The odd thing about tradition is, the longer it's been going, the more people seem to take it seriously - as though sheer passage…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Oliver D. Crisp

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

— Anonymous

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

— Chogyam Trungpa

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

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

— Michael Novak

The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.

— Doug Stanhope

I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.

— Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

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

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

— Allan Bloom

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

— Kenzo Tange