I cannot express the pleasure I have in writing down my thoughts [in her journal], at the very moment--my opinion of people when I... first see them, and how I alter, or how confirm myself in it--and I am much deceived in my foresight, if I shall not have very great delight in reading this living proof of my manner of passing my time, my sentiments, my thoughts of people I know, and a thousand other things in future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction between... our present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More than the changing of institutions we need the development of a national conscience, and the upbuilding of national character.... Men may boast of the aristocracy of blood, may glory in the aristocracy of talent, and be proud of the aristocracy of wealth, but there is one aristocracy which must ever outrank them all, and that is the aristocracy of character; and it is the women of a country who help to mold its character, and to influence if not determine its destiny; and in the political future of our nation woman will not have done what she could if she does not endeavor to have our republic stand foremost among the nations of the earth, wearing sobriety as a crown and righteousness as a garment and a girdle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every member of the family of the future will be a producer of some kind and in some degree. The only one who will have the right ...of exemption will be the mother ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his ...marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hideyhole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luck Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there's a message there, I don't think I want to hear it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each ...of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And no less firmly do I hold that we shall one day recognize in Freud's life-work the cornerstone for the building of a new anthro...pology and therewith of a new structure, to which many stones are being brought up today, which shall be the future dwelling of a wiser and freer humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not that I think you did not love your father, But that I know love is begun by time,... And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »