Generations Quotes

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

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.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

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.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.

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.

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.

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!

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

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

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

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

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

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

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.

I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated.

For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly.

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.

It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand.