Contemporaries Quotes

You begin to watch your contemporaries retire, and that's bound to make you think of your own situation, your own future. In some ways, that makes it easier to go on to the next phase. - Gary Busby

Why was I born with such contemporaries? - Oscar Wilde

What we generally fail to realize is that in talking today to the Indians we are face to face with the direct descendants, as often as not, of people who were contemporaries of Ancient Egypt, and whose present culture, in most of its main essentials. - Austin Coates

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries! - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have hundreds of pieces of new music being composed every year. How many will last? This has always been true. How many of Brahms' pieces lasted? And what of Brahms' contemporaries, the ones whose work hasn't survived? It is unfair to compare today's music to what has endured, which is only the greatest music. The point is to listen, to keep listening. - Jahja Ling

Tom Petty kept his price very low compared to his contemporaries. Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire did, too, when they paired up for a tour, and it was very successful. - Gary Bongiovanni

To us, the high-resounding isms to which our contemporaries ask; us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success; if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail. - Savitri Devi

This is the biggest crocodile that ever lived in New Mexico. Its contemporaries living at the same time were about half its size. - Spencer Lucas

The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert. - Pierre Loti