LaMelo Ball Quotes

The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity

… history is that which transforms documents into monuments

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

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

A good story never dies.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

History takes time... History makes memory.

Histories make men wise.

History: Gossip well told.

The word “History” is mostly made up of the word “Story”.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

I like to make history.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

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.