Aaron Peirsol Quotes

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

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

Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we want to impress.

Not everything needs changing. Some things need protecting. And that can be just as important, challenging and rewarding as changing the world.

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.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on.

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.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

It's about carrying on the legacy and doing something I love and have a passion for.

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.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

I do not innovate. I transmit.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

It embodied what came before. Illuminated what came after.

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.