Abigail Washburn Quotes

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

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

It's important to evolve without ever straying too far from your roots and what established you.

Times change and we should change and grow, and yet be proud of our legacy.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

We who once were fools and dreamers, then shall we be brave and wise.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world..

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what's fun for you.

Change is hard, but change is good.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.

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

I guess we're all kinda searching for a connection with something that's relevant to our past and speaks to who we are, and maybe helps us make a connection to what we are, and where we come from.