Rozonda Thomas Quotes

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

We're trying to let people see what their grandfather told them about.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

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?

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

History takes time... History makes memory.

I'm a storyteller. I do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.

Music is part of our culture.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

Culture is coded wisdom

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

All tradition is merely the past.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

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.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

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

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'