Generations Quotes

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

I want to see the glory of God invade this generation.

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.

I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.

I'm a third generation superstar.

We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas . . . Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Justice is based on values. And those change every generation.

No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.