Alice Walker Quotes

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

It's important to show love to the people that came before you.

I have great respect for the past.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

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

We are all the beneficiaries of those who have gone before us.

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.

I love where I come from. The people there are good people. When they say, 'Thank you,' they mean it.

People like to trace their ancestry.

I always had my roots in the past.

You've got to respect the game and you've got to respect what the people that have played have done for the game.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

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

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

You want to try to find your heritage.

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

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.

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.