Logo
Quote by Willa Cather
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to th

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. – Willa Cather

Other quotes by Willa Cather

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. – Willa Cather

Category:
Talent
Author
Willa Cather
Read Quote

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. – Willa Cather

Category:
Curmudgeonesque
Author
Willa Cather
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Generations
category

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. – Adlai Stevenson

Category:
Generations

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Generations

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. – Clarence Darrow

Category:
Generations

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. – Charles Dudley Warner

Category:
Generations

Random Quotes

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, – Charlotte Barnard

Category:
Past, the

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit… Santa, who was jolly – but, lets face it, he was also very judgmental. – Julia Sweeney

Category:
Family

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. – Vaclav Havel

Category:
Hope

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. – Harry Truman

Category:
Presidents Day