Clarence Darrow Quotes

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

People throw legacy and dynasty around a bit too much.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.

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

Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

I want to make sure people are connected with the future as well as the past.

I want to take care of my family for generations. I want to have my head turned into a bust in the Hall of Fame.

We didn't invent anything new. Hospitality has been around forever.

The past is always recycled. I'm just taking what the people I looked up to did and translating it for my generation.

My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

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

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

I was called recently in some article "Hollywood's Oldest Established Rebel." So I'm sort of working from the inside now, with still a little bit of a rebellious spirit.

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.