William Jennings Bryan Quotes

Those who come after us will... fill up the canvas we begin.

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

Success is not success without a successor.

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

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.

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

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.

Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come.

No one man can take on the mantle of another.

Just think of what we'll pass on to the poor fellow who comes after me.

It embodied what came before. Illuminated what came after.

I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. They take the stuff they want, throw the rest away, and keep running. That's what life is about.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

There is no success without a successor.

I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else. There’s an entire generation of leaders you saw stand behind me. They are the future of this country.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

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.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

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

As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again.