Vin Scully Quotes

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

We clasp the hands of those who go before us.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, and it's also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

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

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

I really don’t make history; I preserve it.

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry

For those things which were done either by our fathers or ancestors, and in which we ourselves had no share, I can scarcely call our own.

I sort of take cues from my grandparents.

I'm very much into legacies.

I got a big Filipino family. That's what I love about being Pinoy: we all gotta surround ourselves with family; we all gotta laugh and do things together. I love it! It's family first.

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

For me, understanding your heritage and wanting to leave a legacy was always important to me.

Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

What interested me most about the Kennedys was the family situation. Somehow, they had created this family that lasted over time, they had a sense of connection to one another. Especially now, when people are spread all over the country and they don't see grandparents and parents, this family bonded together.

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.