Generations Quotes · Page 11

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

— Laurence Overmire

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

— John Lahr

A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

— Shmuel Niger

Every person in every generation has a choice: to obey God or to do his own thing.

— Tim LaHaye

Peter Joseph is asking the questions and proposing the possible solutions that we should be demanding from the elected leaders of this…

— Joe Rogan

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

— Emma Watson

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches…

— Lewis F. Powell, Jr

I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had…

— Bucky Pope

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

— Ken Kercheval

...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty…

— J. Paul Getty

Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our…

— David Suzuki

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important,…

— Robert MacNeil

I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And…

— Tony Fadell

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we…

— Julius Sterling Morton

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing…

— Mario Monti

Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest…

— Richard P. Feynman

But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and…

— Henry David Thoreau

In your generation, everybody is constantly bombarded with all kinds of different input from different cultures, and that's a strength, that's a…

— Barack Obama

Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will…

— Anonymous

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Louise Bogan

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for…

— Alexis Denisof

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

— Raymond Arroyo

Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air…

— Gina McCarthy