Continuity Quotes

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations. Dean Rusk

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. Margaret Mead

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most people this comes chiefly through their work. Bertrand Russell

Historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith – a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity. George F. Kennan