Cesar Pelli Quotes

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

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

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

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

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.

I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep.

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

I think that our comfort is in our history.

Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.

I think, for me, it has been important to remain 'Petra from Fulnek.'

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

It's always relevant - moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.

I'm just this kid from New Zealand, to be honest. My life has changed, but I'm still that same kid, and I don't think that will ever change.

We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.