Quotes About Continuity

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present.

She was thinking of many things, for to her the thread of life was not broken by Death, but kept winding along calmly and evenly.

We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory, seeping into our DNA. And when our cells get scattered , whenever that happens, this moment will still exist in them. Those cells might be the building block of something new. A planet or star or a sunflower, a baby. Maybe even a cockroach. Who knows? Whatever it is, it'll be a part of us, this thing right here and now, and we'll be a part of it.

Emperors came and went while bureaucracy continued, as rampant as mould.

no pain was permanent, and no loss was real. That even though people treated each other abominably, even though they left, even though you let them go, even though you never laid eyes on them again, this fugue that linked you continued, whether you liked it or not.

Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life

the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion. Every reading prolongs another, begun in some afternoon thousands of years ago and of which we know nothing; every reading projects its shadow onto the following page, lending it content and context. In this way, the story grows, layer after layer, like the skin of the society whose history this act preserves.

The forms change, but the substance remains.

Music and art and philosophy are ultimately based on the premise that this man on his tractor, and these pigs, and the swarms of bees that fertilise the crops, will all continue to do what they do.

Another marathon was on; a rerun surely, there couldn't be this many marathons going on all the time anywhere on Earth.

Gaming was one of the only times when you only have to focus on one thing. But even more than that, It's like an anchor. As long as I know it's there, it's part of me. It's some form of continuity that in my life I desperately need.

La oración es, en un sentido, la expresión de una relación continua del cristiano con el Padre.

The Earth was formed whole and continuous in the Universe, without lines.

Lampedusa had it right—things had to seem to change so that things could remain the same.

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.

If the Super Bowl is the ultimate game, how come there is another one next year?