Generations Quotes

We are going to be raising a generation of mentally impaired people.

I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.

...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

I'm so blessed that I can still be here to bring the music and have new generations of fans. My Pops would be so proud.

Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.

I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.

There is an entire generation who was too young to read 'The Purpose Driven Life' 10 years ago but are now asking the critical question, 'What on earth am I here for?'

Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations.

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Every generation has to find their own heroes.

Every person in every generation has a choice: to obey God or to do his own thing.

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

I'm kind of old-fashioned because I was born and live in the same house for six generations.

So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

Today’s generation of young people holds more power than any generation before it to make a positive impact on the world.

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.

When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.

We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have.

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.