Family Quote by Lewis Mumford Download Open image “Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.” — Lewis Mumford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Family Friendship Generations Parenting
Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last. — Tinie Tempah 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
My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer;… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Every generation and every group brings the door into other things. — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
My mom and dad understood that every generation has to earn its freedom over and over again. — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“ever day Maureen is Selfish To her friend and Family One she get mad at her friend and family and She need to Grad… — Maureen Andeson Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
“So Jace is my actual family," Kit said. "But I can't go live with him, because him and his hot girlfriend are going off… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“She knew how to play him so very well. He slipped his hand around hers. "Friends," he repeated roughly. Her smile was bright enough to light up the room-and make him see stars. "Excellent! I'm so pleased. And now I really should go. I don't want to keep your family waiting." His family. She was going out with his family.… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share
As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
The people have always been family to me here in Las Vegas. The people have always been very, very kind to me, and it's… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image
