For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.
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Plato—who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to '...
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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Those summer days which some of my contemporaries devoted to the fine arts in Boston or Rome, and others to contemplation in India, and others...
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Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
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The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired, not by his friends or his towns-people or his contemporaries, but by all men, and ...
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Why was I born with such contemporaries
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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