Generations Quotes · Page 208

When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are…

— Oren Lyons

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to…

— David Graeber

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Social activism has gone mainstream. A new generation of philanthropic leaders such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Bono are providing inspiration,…

— Willow Bay

The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include…

— Jeremy Rifkin

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

— Vivienne Westwood

Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was…

— Gay Talese

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a…

— James Buchan

For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting…

— Mortimer Zuckerman

My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation,…

— George Muller

So, the emerging church is about a re-imagining: re-imagining our preaching, our evangelism, and our worship services. A re-imagining of new types…

— Dan Kimball

Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe…

— Gautama Buddha

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

— Edward Gibbon

I can't think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we'll not only preserve our landscape for future generations…

— John Anderson

Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty…

— Luis Palau

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that…

— Peter Fonda

I desire a violent, domineering, fearless, and ferocious upcoming generation. It must be able to bear pain. It must show no signs…

— Adolf Hitler

But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.

— Mark Latham

Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the…

— Paul Kagame

The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference…

— Edward Gibbon

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be…

— L.A. Reid

What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they…

— Derek Bok

Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read…

— Anne Graham Lotz