Will Durant Quotes

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

I do not innovate. I transmit.

We can't restore our civilization with someome else's babies.

My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.

I always wanted my kids to be proud of their heritage.

I just want to do some movies that my children and my grandchildren would be proud of. That's my yardstick.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.

Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people's minds and lives.

We are the heirs of the ages

My father always said, "You don't know who you are until you know where you came from." That's one thing I always remembered. The other thing that my family always taught me was respect and reputation. You always respect yourself.

I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.