Book of Proverbs Quotes

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes.

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.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

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.

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

Don’t choose a straight path. And don’t reject a winding one. Choose the path your ancestors have trod.

The earth always belongs to the living.

We must not be willing to disinter the origins of those [institutions] we wish to preserve.

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

We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people. We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people.

As I walk to my office every morning, I know I stand on the shoulders of those who came before me.

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

See! This our fathers did for us.

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?

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

There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

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

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

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

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