Acquisition Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by…

— William Whewell

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

— Fred Rogers

“Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In two or…

— Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea

If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources…

— Marilynne Robinson

I learned old people hoard things sometimes 'cause the people that owned it are gone... They are lonely. How would you feel if your…

— Lacey Deer

It's important that we take care of our future generations and expose them to some new things.

— C. J. McCollum

“Invest your evaporating time and leave a legacy behind for future generations.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who can afford…

— Philip K. Chapman

All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation…

— Sonali Bendre

It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a…

— Jacques Derrida

I am a hoarder when it comes to antiques.

— Sophie Thatcher

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

— Herbert Hoover