Quotes About Continuity

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.

When I approached 'Animal Man,' I approached it as if it wasn't a reboot, as if the Grant Morrison and Jamie Delano stuff happened. I mean, as much as I could make it all make sense, it still all happened.

I love working with Byron Saxton and Jerry Lawler, and I hope I continue to do so.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

It has duration. Can it not, itself, be split in two? And split again, and again, and again, divided and subdivided ad infinitum, with no stopping point? Does it not, itself, contain an abyss? The fabric of ordinary time is all hollow beneath, opening into void below void, gulf behind gulf. Every moment you care to define proving on examination to be a close-packed sheaf of finer, and yet finer ones without end; finer, in fact, always and forever, than whatever your last guess was.

May her moccasins make tracks in many snows that are yet to come

The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands. "Toward a New architecture" July 14, 1957

Just as space has parts lying alongside one another, time has parts following one another. The Infinite has no parts, of either (or any other conceivable) sort. Eternity is not time, however much we may try to glorify the concept of time.

Life goes on, as it should, but individuals are unique.

Or in the words of the famous British historian Arnold Toynbee, "History is just one damn thing after another.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

Grandparents are both our past and our future. In some ways they are what has gone before, and in others they are what we will become.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

The first step binds one to the second.

Heute Ist immer noch (Today is like always).

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

it's still absurd from a Buddhist standpoint to say the mountain on which the old man / wild fox met Hyakujo is the same one that existed millions of years ago. Yet there is still some kind of continuity from the past to the present, and we all know that.

Echu says the insentient explain the dharma all the time. "All the time" means they actually explain it at every real moment. There's no break in their explanation. Real explanations always happen without any break.

I strive for nothing if not consistency