Generations Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.

Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.

A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.

I grew up with video games. My generation kind of grew up with the Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Then, I had a Dreamcast and, finally, the PlayStation. So yeah, I've always been a big gamer.

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.

I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.

A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.