Generations Quotes

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into adulthood.

Jesus still has a really great reputation and the Spirit is still moving. I've got a lot of hope for a generation that takes Jesus seriously, once again.

I think we're seeing that the way we've done parenting cannot be sustainable in this generation, for sure.

The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won't be here in a few years.

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count.

Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young.

My generation in the UK, they're very apathetic, a lot of them.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.

Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right.

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

One generation cannot bind another.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for the generations which follow us.

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country will never be forgotten.

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

Protecting the dignity and the security our seniors have earned is a commitment that spans generations and party lines.

George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy.

Different generations and people of different ethnic origins have different views on China. But they all agree on one thing. That is democracy.

I've kind of touched on the youth generation, what the concept of fame, what does it actually, really mean.

I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.