Honoring the Past Quotes

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The Past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

Remembering doesn’t help the remembered. It is for the rest of us.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

We preserve the legacy of my father through an education approach. We award scholarships. We do classes at schools about my father's philosophy and life.

dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)

I write in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther

It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

I'd just like to carry on in Dad's footsteps. I think that Dad's spirit and passion lives in every single one of us.

We can't let the past be forgotten.

I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

These guys from the past really motivate me, much respect to the guys before me and the ones after me.

But I understand now what Tori said about her tattoo representing a fear she overcame-a reminder of where she was, as well as a reminder of who she is now. Maybe there is a way to honor my old life as I embrace my new one. "yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

We clasp the hands of those who go before us.