Quotes About Continuity

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

History must stay open, it is all humanity.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

You never fail until you stop trying.

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Success is not success without a successor.

There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

The stories that travel down through the years nurture our descendants long after we're gone. We contribute to this continuity by the acceptance we offer and the time we share. It's our immortality.

An infant's smile was the greatest promise that the world would go on, no matter how much the grown-ups mucked around with it.

tomorrow never happens. it's the same fucking day, man.

Si desaparecemos no se notará nuestra falta, el hueco será rellenado sin solución de continuidad, como un tejido que se regenera rápido.

Our lives are often a continuous betrayal and denial of what came before, we twist and distort everything as time passes, and yet we are still aware, however much we deceive ourselves, that we are the keepers of secrets and mysteries, however trivial.

Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

History properly so-called can be written only by those who find and accept a sense of direction in history itself. The belief that we have come from somewhere is closely linked with the belief that we are going somewhere.

You never fail until you stop trying.

You don't mean what you say. You may think you do, but you don't. What has been right and natural, since the days of Eve, will keep on being right and natural to the end of the chapter. What has gone on for six thousand years is not likely to stop short and change itself, in a single quarter century. Nothing in nature has ever done that.

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.

It never ends, Pinya says. Every time, you think maybe this here is a different world, but it's all the same: they live, we die. So here it is again.

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