Generations Quotes · Page 13

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

— Leon Kass

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

— Doug Larson

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

— Thomas Bangalter

We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons

— Nizar Qabbani

We are probably one of the last generations of Homo sapiens.

— Yuval Noah Harari

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

— John Lewis

Weed is going to bring us together as a generation. Drugs is what created Woodstock. Let's be clear about that.

— ASAP Rocky

The name ‘Girls Generation’ in itself contains dreams. And that dream of making the world a Girls Generation will never change.

— Seohyun

...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this…

— Adolf Hitler

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

— Manning Marable

An electron is an electron, but you can decide where to send your electric-bill payment. You can't redirect the electrons, but you…

— Ralph Cavanagh

With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation…

— Ildefonsus

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I hate heroin. It killed off a lot of my generation. It killed off a lot of my friends. Now this generation…

— Lemmy Kilmister

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values…

— Gregory Bateson

No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called…

— Thomas Sowell

I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a…

— Khloe Kardashian

The potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is,…

— Jeremy Grantham

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history…

— Cory Booker

What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back…

— Chris Hedges

A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies…

— Itay Talgam

What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the…

— Robert Musil

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he…

— Abraham Verghese

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into…

— Anthony Doerr

Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are…

— Alice Walker

We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making…

— Alfred W. Crosby

I think that's why they're so really - here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd and I've always had this problem…

— Jon Stewart

You all think you have great ideas or Pokemon games, but if I actually listened to all of you and we combined…

— Satoshi Tajiri

Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today…

— John F. Kerry

Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

— Thomas Browne

This generation is frightened of ideas, or at least it's being suppressed.

— Matt Drudge

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Unfortunately, our generation is full of liars & cheaters

— Anonymous

I really do not understand the members of my generation.

— Zeke Smith

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

— Gertrude Stein

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

— Anonymous

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

— Edgar Lee Masters