Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

Do not overthrow the custom that has made it all the way to you.

Denim comes and goes into style often, but my Levi's have longevity. They will never be just a fad.

I guess some things never change.

his voice was centuries old

People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

Since 1890, the Tour d'Argent's basic recipe hasn't changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now.

The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

There is always the need to carry on.

Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Quality survives.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might split at the seams. It doesn't look much like it used to, but it's more comfortable, and there's probably a lot of wear left in it.

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is excellence.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.