Ocupation: Historian
Life: October 19, 1895 - January 26, 1990
Birthday: October 19
Death: January 26
Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!
source: Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail
topic: Dream, Regret, Maturity, Soap Bubbles, Granite