“The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
“One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that… — John Carey Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect Lady Gaga. But we'll travel hundreds of miles… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
This generations success is only possible because past generations felt a responsibility to each other & to their countrys future. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Do we carry the guilt from the sins of past generations? If so, can we bear the weight of that burden? Trent” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The Evangelistic Harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men and of nations is always being decided. Every generation is strategic. We… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Economic systems work better when there's an extreme reliability ethos. And the traditional way to get a reliability ethos, at least in… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
“Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations’ ideas, customs,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with… — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
“we enjoy the peace we find today because people in past generations were appalled by the violence in their time and worked… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom… — Libby Copeland Copy Share Image
This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century... During… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so dangerous, or so overwhelming as stupidity; perhaps there is no more of it now than… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
I really look to past generations. I think my grandparents, friends' grandparents, or even parents of my older friends grew up in… — Elizabeth Rogers Copy Share Image
One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued… — John Kador Copy Share Image
