Famous quotes containing the words model and/or year:
“...that absolutely everything beloved and cherished of the bourgeoisie, the conservative, the cowardly, and the impotentthe State, family life, secular art and sciencewas consciously or unconsciously hostile to the religious idea, to the Church, whose innate tendency and permanent aim was the dissolution of all existing worldly orders, and the reconstitution of society after the model of the ideal, the communistic City of God.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)
“The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)