Quotes About Continuity

Look at yourself; you are the same person since you were born. During these forty years of your life, all the cells of your body have changed, but you are still you, even though you are liv- ing in time and space. So it is with tradition.

Repetition is a convincing argument.

Every Jew was the last Jew; Tevye the Terminal, every single one. Yet, Kugel couldn't help but observe, in all that time - no last Jew. There had been a last Assyrian. There had been a last Ammonite. There had been a last Babylonian, a last Mesopotamian, a last of the Mohicans. But no last Jew.

Israel, as a nation, is a type of the church. But this is the case, not because the church is merely the replacement of Israel, but because Christ, as the true seed of Abraham and the fulfillment of Israel, unites in himself both spiritual Jews and Gentiles as the "Israel of God" (Gal 6:16). There is continuity, but also important discontinuity. Now that Christ has come, only those who have faith and have experienced spiritual rebirth are his people and part of his family.

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

Time goes on, even when yer not looking.

Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which is changeless, otherwise it has no definition.

You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity.

Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.

On day is pressed on by another.

Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.

I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.

Seems like everything lead up to this dayand it's just like every day that's ever been.Sun goin' up and then the sunit goin' down.

It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.

This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.

To excel the past we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it on the contrary we must feel it under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it.

Every minute starts an hour.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

Through people that I did know or through things that I did touch, I am connected with everything that ever was and everything that ever will be. Everything hangs together with everything.