Hezekiah Niles Quotes

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

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

The future has a lot to do with the past.

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.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

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.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

We are tomorrow's past.

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

While the United States of today is not the United States of yesterday there are unmistakable indications that she is also not the United States of tomorrow.

Commemorating the present and looking forward to a more promising future has always depended on learning from the past..

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

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

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

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

I really felt it was time for a new vision.

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.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.