Famous quotes containing the words grand and/or generation:
“Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)