“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.” PeopleYearsHomeSchoolPastThreeGoneGenerationsModernReadyCooksMealsRelevantModern LifeOver The PastHome LifeThree GenerationsProcessed FoodTakeaways Author:Jamie Oliver
“What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.” GivingWritingDoneGoneFateModernPoetCriticsWipeSpitSlate Author:Thomas Hood
“There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.” GoneModernWeightAccessScrutinyMonarchsModern TimesTimes Gone By Author:George VI
“I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsKindAgeHumanityFightingEnemyGoneModernBraveryKillingDespiseWarfareModern Warfare Author:Robertson Davies
“This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.” WorldNeedsUseYoungGoneGenerationsModernPositionHairAuthorityGrayBishopsRazorsGray HairCrazeHeadmasters Author:Elizabeth Goudge
“Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsMeanSeemsWould BePastUsedRealizingGoneClearModernFineAnxietyCrisisNotionDelusionNostalgicCrackedFluxMalaiseModern Family Author:Stephanie Coontz
“City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!” ShouldShowsSeemsCitiesGoneModernShould HaveBusySensesVenice Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone.” WellsFilmGoneModernHonestCreditOpeningBeing Honest Author:Johnny Depp
“Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.” IfsThinkingMindStatesTodayPastSpaceGoneVirtueModernActivityGainsNotionArroganceDecayTime And SpacePassivityBanalityProfundityClassifying Author:Russell Jacoby
“So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.” PeopleYearsHumansHas BeensGoneModernCenturyDevelopmentPeriodsMoonLateDiscoveryHorseInnovationErasCoveredCows19th CenturyMost AmazingCamelsWagonsAccelerationModern Era Author:Edgar Mitchell