Generations Quotes · Page 42

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.

— E. B. White

Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving…

— Mark Riebling

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

— George Bernard Shaw

What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except…

— Tony Kushner

Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream…

— Wendy Rose

[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 have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating…

— Thomas Jefferson

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated…

— James A. Baldwin

There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter…

— Gerald Griffin

There were many generations of Latino people coming to this country, coming from difficult political or social situations in their own countries,…

— Antonio Banderas

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

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.

— Louis C. K

The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is…

— Michael Horton

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes…

— Ray Bradbury

Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on…

— Lucretius

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in…

— Samuel Smiles

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and…

— Marcus Aurelius

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

— Douglas Wilson

[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots…

— Emma Thompson

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because,…

— Tori Amos

You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are…

— William Golding

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins