Quotes about Continuity
Think of how many people have died, and how many more animals have been killed and eaten by humans and each other, yet the Earth is not overflowing with corpses. Life continually renews itself. * * *
- Marcus Aurelius
Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.
- Margaret Atwood
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
- John F. Kennedy
To cut ourselves off from the past is to rob ourselves from understanding the present.
- John Frame
Revolution is not a one time event.
- Audre Lorde
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
- Hans Kung
In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations
- Mark Driscoll
A nation that forgets its past has no future
- Winston Churchill
The never-ending flight of future days.
- John Milton
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
- John Oates
PART OF THE GENIUS of genuine Christianity is that each generation has to think it through afresh.
- Scot McKnight