Art Quote by William Wordsworth

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and…

— Thomas Carlyle

Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim…

— William Cullen Bryant

Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown…

— John Gould Fletcher

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and…

— Max Weber

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

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but…

— Billy Graham

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

— Emil M. Cioran

“Each generation stamps itself onto the next one. The impression is indelible. Like the flowers in my mother's gardens that come and go with…

— Lurlene McDaniel

One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which…

— Saint Augustine

By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never…

— Edmund Burke

Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the…

— Alfred Austin

“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the meeting point…

— John Ralston Saul