Generations Quotes · Page 16

All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.

— Lindsay Pearce

As for the people of Tasawwuf, they affirm the love of Allah, and this is more evident among them than all other…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had…

— Annie Dillard

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get…

— Prince

The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that…

— Robert Mankoff

Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in…

— Henry Giroux

Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don’t do something about it. The world is going to get smaller…

— Vivienne Westwood

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off…

— C. S. Lewis

An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local…

— Ruth Benedict

The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the…

— Martin Filler

Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life…

— Richard Louv

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and…

— Clarence Day

I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at…

— Eileen Claussen

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music…

— Jonathan Lethem

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have…

— Eamon de Valera

"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is…

— Joshua L. Liebman

I don't accept that the new generation is looking for anything different than what we've always been looking for. Depending on the…

— Rakim

From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview,…

— Hank Hanegraaff

I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.

— Zoe Leonard

Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is…

— Thomas Jefferson

We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of…

— Eda LeShan

Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each…

— Lucretius