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Quotes About Continuity

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.
~ Sam Levenson
What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.
~ Amy Alcott
Because the pernicious opposition by Satan continues, the continuous enlightened guidance of the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential.
~ Keith K. Hilbig
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
~ Bertrand Russell
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
~ Robert E. Lee
History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.
~ J. Cole
History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.
~ Eduardo Galeano
History doesn't have a curfew.
~ John Green
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
~ Philip Johnson
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
~ Benjamin Cardozo
History is, indeed, an argument without end.
~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
History does not belong to us; we belong to it.
~ Hans-Georg Gadamer
We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.
~ Régis Debray
American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.
~ John F. Kennedy
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.
~ Alfred Kazin
History's just one darn thing after another.
~ Henry Ford
What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
~ Orson Welles, Mr. Arkadin
The whole past is the procession of the present.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
~ Richard Nixon
History is the seed bed of the future.
~ Leo Booth
History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
~ Edmund Burke
If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.
~ Plato
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
~ Rebecca West
Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.
~ Mary Oliver