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Quotes About Progress

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
~ Bennett Cerf
Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
~ Baha'u'llah
Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.
~ Patti Stanger
My dear, we live in an age of transition.
~ William Ralph Inge
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
~ Samuel Johnson
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.
~ Abdus Salam
The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.
~ Neal Barnard
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
~ Walter Pater
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.
~ Joe Quirk
We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people
~ Amit Abraham
I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.
~ William Blake
Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.
~ Baha'u'llah
The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.
~ T. S. Eliot
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
~ Mason Cooley
About 800 million people in India are below the age of 35 years. Their aspirations, energy, enterprise and skills will be the force for India's economic transformation.
~ Narendra Modi
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
~ Homer
National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Only the schools' inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.
~ George Leonard