Lao Tzu Quotes

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

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

Only the very best clubs are able to pass the baton of continuity down through the generations.

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

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

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

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.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Let it endure forever

Do not overthrow the custom that has made it all the way to you.

As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

You can't build a future if you don't have a past.

I think that our comfort is in our history.

It's important to evolve without ever straying too far from your roots and what established you.