Generations Quotes

We have a responsibility to carry the baton of faith to the next generation.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.

The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.

This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.

Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.

You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, you know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.

I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation.

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

Don't resent, fear, or judge the next generation, believe in them.

Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.