Ellen Glasgow Quotes

To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

Members of the rising new generation! The future is yours. The republic has been founded by us. It is up to you to guard and exalt it.

Every human essay must have defects. It will remain, therefore, to those now coming on the stage of public affairs, to perfect what has been so well begun by those going off it

… ideas are structures built over time, each part added by a new generation.

The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone.

I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.

It may not happen in my lifetime, but if I can play a part in moving things along, then I feel I've done a good job.

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!

They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.