"Modernize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... done to modernize the old place, we seem scarcely to have disturbed its air of antiquity. It is evident that other wedded pairs have spent their honeymoons here, that children have been born here, and people have grown old and died in these rooms, although for our behoof the same apartments have consented to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various
... of text, but his successors have been forced to modernize the works to make them accessible for the public. This fact is painful. In literature the texts are studied and the endeavor is to reproduce the writer's thought as closely as possible. In music it ...
— Musical Memories • Camille Saint-Saens
... modernize him and humanize him. Will you allow me to introduce him to you? And will you take him in hand a little—teach him something of life as it is, not ...
— The Coquette's Victim • Charlotte M. Braeme
... conditions do more than anything else to brighten, modernize and make comfortable the house of today. Poor light is poor economy in more than ...
— Fowler's Household Helps • A. L. Fowler
... favors our potential enemies. Given that we have proven unable to predict the outbreak of conflict in the past, these forces must also be ready at all times to carry out combat operations in most any place. There will not be time to modernize their equipment or train reserve force units. They must be capable of projecting and sustaining their military power over long distances and operating in the environment of the enemy's choosing. Last but not least, when required, they must be capable of decisive ...
— Shock and Awe - Achieving Rapid Dominance • Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade |
