Bob Hawke Quotes

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

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.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

We cannot afford to neglect some recognition of our past, even though we gaze into the future.