Jidenna Quotes

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

You can't build a future if you don't have a past.

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.

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

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.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

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

You can't run from your roots.

You want to try to find your heritage.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

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

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.

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.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

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

It embodied what came before. Illuminated what came after.

… history does not belong to us but rather we to it

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.