Bruce Nordstrom Quotes

Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

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

I am not myself, I am the result of all my ancestors.

I feel like our history and our roots make us who we are.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

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

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

You want to try to find your heritage.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.

I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big - my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

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.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.