Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

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

Without history one remains always a child.

We are all the beneficiaries of those who have gone before us.

You can't build a future if you don't have a past.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

Institutions do live on their history.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

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

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

It's good to pass on stories.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

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

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry

I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.