Generations Quotes · Page 31

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

— Mary Brave Bird

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

— Aleksandr Lebed

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

— Barbra Streisand

There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.

— Geoffrey Howe

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

— Hank Johnson

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

— Stendhal

It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

— Vin Scully

I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he…

— Jack Kirby

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

— Paul Auster

In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.

— Lewis Mumford

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

— Gore Vidal

There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation.

— James Grant

I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards,…

— Steven Adler

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we…

— David Suzuki

I've been fortunate enough to travel to 58 different countries and I thank God everyday that I was born in this country.…

— Benjamin Carson

Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed…

— Alfred Kazin

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The fact that previous generations have handed down to us a substantial public heritage by way of roads, port, etc. almost completely…

— John James Cowperthwaite

Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her…

— Rachel Weisz

It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit…

— Anonymous

I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long…

— William E. Gladstone

We are particularly proud of our youth. I think we have never had a stronger generation of young men and women than…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be…

— Brigham Young

Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment…

— Will Wright

Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving…

— Mark Riebling

A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected…

— Pope Benedict XVI

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and…

— H. G. Wells

Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine…

— Gary North

You can cruise the world's millions of omega-3 Web sites without encountering any reflections about where these prized fatty acids are coming…

— Charles Clover

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

— Ernest Hemingway

“All of our ancestors live within each one of us whether we are aware of it or not.”

— Laurence Overmire

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

— John Dewey

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

— George Orwell

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered..

— Nicholas Sparks

A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

— James Freeman

I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

— Billie Jean King

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

— Christine Lagarde