Americans Quote by Neil Postman

“There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This Second Century appeals to me because it was the last century, for a very long period of time, in which men could think…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves,…

— Isaac Asimov

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best…

— Will Durant

“We don't live for sixty, eighty, or even a hundred years. We live for the few precious moments that happen in those sixty, eighty,…

— Christina Daley

“There is something you have that all of the most wildly successful people in our history have also had. Twenty four hours in a…

— Mark T. Arsenault

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Compared to prehistoric times, ninety is the new forty.”

— Anne Kreamer

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow.”

— Dean Koontz

“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

“[in] the whole of world history there is always only one really significant hour--the present ... [I]f you want to find eternity, you must…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer