Age Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our Age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature…

— Harvey J. Kaye

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

— Morgan Saylor

We must be authors of the history of our age.

— Madeleine Albright

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the…

— Frederick Jackson Turner

“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of…

— John Updike

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every…

— Terry Jones

“The direction in which the culture of an age develops is, humanly speaking, chosen by a few exceptionally intelligent men. The popular authors then…

— Gordon H. Clark

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

— Jacob Burckhardt

“Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the…

— Eric Hobsbawm

The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

“The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure.”

— Julian B. Barbour