Our Own Time Quotes

42 quotes by 37 authors

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own… — Michele Bachmann
This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us… — Richard M. Nixon
The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth… — Mark Twain
Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of… — Hans Rookmaaker
We're all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I can't judge anyone else. What other… — Charles Manson
We're in a state of crisis where our nation is literally ripping apart at the seams right now, and lawlessness is occurring from one ocean… — Michele Bachmann
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by… — Giorgio Vasari
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on… — John F. Kennedy
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've… — Eddie Campbell
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure… — Hans Hofmann
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an… — Theodore Dalrymple
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to… — Polybius
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come… — Elijah Cummings
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to… — Virginia Woolf
The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our… — Ronald Reagan
You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great… — Francois Arago
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain… — Edward Forbes
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to… — Murray Bookchin

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