Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.