Destined Quote by William Blake

Before us men have flourished just as we now flourish: others yet again shall be, whose generations we shall never see

— Greek Proverb

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

— Bernard Levin

“The movement of time is guaranteed by the birth of generation after generation, a never-ending succession that fills the gods with fear.”

— Mikhail Bakhtine

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations…

— George Bernard Shaw

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings…

— Homer

Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding…

— Anonymous

“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ⎯ is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

— Sinclair Lewis

The generation of men is like that of leaves. The wind scatters one year's leaves on the ground, but the forest burgeons and and…

— The Iliad

“Each generation lives in the absolute: it behaves as if it had reached the apex if not the end of history.”

— Emil M. Cioran

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

— Ernest Gaines

Men are immortal till their work is done.

— David Livingstone