Christine Gregoire Quotes

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

The mantle of the pioneers has fallen on our shoulders.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

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.

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

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, and they are deeply invested in how children are treated, because the children are the ones who will keep it going. The idea that each of us has the right to change everything is a deep insult to them.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.

Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for the generations which follow us.

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

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

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.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

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.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

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.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

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

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

Canada is our inheritance from our parents and our legacy to our children.

Just think of what we'll pass on to the poor fellow who comes after me.