Generations Quotes

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?

Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.

I'm part of the Ipod generation. I got 10,000 tracks from all over the world.

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

Men can see the greatest miracles and miss the glory of God. What generation was ever favored with miracles as Jesus' generations was? Yet that generation crucified the Son of God!

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.

I want to be part of the generation that stops AIDS.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

I kind of like that romantic image of being in a rocker with my family gathered around, all these generations in one room, listening intently to my stories.

The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.

To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.

Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure?

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

Meditative prayer like that we experienced in the labyrinth resonates with hearts of emerging generations.

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.

I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived

I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."