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

I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

— Luciano Pavarotti

“The fact that you are born means you have the potential of benefiting yourself and generations”

— Abegunde Sunday O

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

— Elizabeth Janeway

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

— Anonymous

I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.

— Michael Skolnik

“Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have…

— Aaron B. Powell

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

— J. Hoberman

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also…

— Claude Nicollier

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

— Frederick Lenz

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have…

— Paul Bley

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because…

— Indira Gandhi

He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— Emile M. Cioran

Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross,…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer