Isaac Marion Quotes

Oh yes. And a great many of them still do.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

I do not innovate. I transmit.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

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

We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.

Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.