Generations Quotes

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.

A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation.

I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.

We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

No generation can escape history.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

With Women, Chloe Caldwell is to Millennials what Anais Nin was to previous generations–a voice that is raw, intimate, thoughtful, compelling. Above all, heartbreakingly real.

We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.

As is the case with that generation [Millennials], they look like they're interested and all fired up and ready to go, and then Election Day comes.

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

Every generation wants to be the last.

But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.

All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.