Abd al-Rahman I Quotes

The future has a lot to do with the past.

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

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

It's very difficult to fill the shoes of somebody like Rahul Bhai. He has set the bench mark for a generation to come. However, it's our responsibility to carry forward his legacy.

The past is a present force.

We are all the beneficiaries of those who have gone before us.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

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

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.

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.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

The mantle of the pioneers has fallen on our shoulders.

We all leave unfinished work; we cannot complete it; those who come after us take it up and conform it to their will

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.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.