Generations Quote by Annie Dillard Download Open image “In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.” — Annie Dillard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generations History Literature Rage
“Your generation - you've not heard the Verve or Jimi Hendrix or Eminem, you've not read The Catcher in the Rye, you've not seen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself -… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.” — Keith Botsford Copy Share Image
“The epithet was quickly moving toward capitalized status: the Lost Generation. In subsequent generations, similar umbrella identities would be ascribed to each era’s under-thirty… — Lesley M.M. Blume Copy Share Image
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
“Each generation stamps itself onto the next one. The impression is indelible. Like the flowers in my mother's gardens that come and go with… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us. — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman Copy Share Image
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
