Thomas Jefferson Quotes

We all leave unfinished work; we cannot complete it; those who come after us take it up and conform it to their will

My father has a movement that started before us. As his children, we are just the stewards to build on his foundation.

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.

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

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

I start where the last man left off.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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

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.

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.