Continuity Quotes

Americans look foward to their posterity rather than backward to their ancestors.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Society is a partnership not only by those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

The past is the present and the future too.

To win victory is easy; to preserve its fruits, difficult.

There is no success without a successor.

I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.

I succeed him. No one can replace him.

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.

Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

everything changes, nothing perishes

I've been at Stoke for eight years... I think I've had the same towel for almost eight years.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.