Generations Quotes · Page 25

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

— Arnold Gesell

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

— Aleksandr Lebed

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

— Barbra Streisand

We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

— Mary Brave Bird

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

— Stendhal

There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.

— Geoffrey Howe

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

— Hank Johnson

Trends in culture all serve a purpose and that's always indicative in fashion and music, you can always tell what's going on…

— Marina and the Diamonds

What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful

— Colin Powell

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

— Erica Jong

It is important to always look back and see what we have done and what we have failed to do in our…

— Ericson Baculinao

I grew up with video games. My generation kind of grew up with the Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Then, I had…

— CC Sabathia

Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those…

— Jeremy Corbyn

I'm an old school guy and love the guys in the monster suits and JAWS; even though everyone makes fun of the…

— Larry Fessenden

That's really why I wanted to do it. I wanted to be a part of this generation's telling of Camelot, and also…

— Tamsin Egerton

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked…

— G. M. Trevelyan

The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need…

— Rebecca Solnit

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . .…

— Terence McKenna

God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His…

— John Cassian

I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter…

— Alexander Kotov

Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain…

— Bobby Sands

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I…

— Wendy Liebman

So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They…

— Warren Jeffs

The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject…

— Ben Fountain

Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They…

— Linda Ronstadt

Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread…

— Amartya Sen

[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency…

— Jonathan Schell

I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of…

— Sidney Blumenthal

I do take a computer to do some processing live and I might use a couple of plug-in synthesisers, 'cause obviously you…

— Thighpaulsandra

There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased…

— Elie Wiesel

It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

— Vin Scully

YOUR KINDNESS TODAY is altering generations to come...

— Anonymous

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

— James A. Baldwin

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

— Nikki Giovanni

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

— Jennifer Pahlka

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

— Freeman Dyson

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

— Luther Allison

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

— Ulysses S. Grant