Generations Quotes · Page 36

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

— T Bone Burnett

This generation must know that the total truthfulness of the bible is under continual assault...

— Albert Mohler

That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free.

— Russell Means

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

— Lewis Mumford

We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.

— Corrie Ten Boom

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

— Kevin O'Leary

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.

— Michael Gurian

I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.

— Viv Albertine

There is so much that is fake about our society. My generation is craving something that is real, honest and true. The…

— Rebecca St. James

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get…

— Jay Kay

The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

— Ed Miliband

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard…

— Douglas Coupland

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

— J. Hoberman

Anyone with an ailment or who wears glasses or anyone slightly different suddenly wears a bull's eye. I think that dodgeball derailed…

— Arthur Jones

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength…

— Erik Erikson

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to…

— Prince Charles

I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what…

— Elvis Costello

Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and…

— Karl Popper

I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see…

— Nikki Giovanni

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with…

— Susan Sontag

Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set…

— Malcolm Fraser

All that most parents hope is that their children are happy, funny, well adjusted, and have a passion for something in their…

— Tom Hanks

Frankly, we are republicans and they're democrats but before all of that, we're Americans. And I believe we need to unify in…

— John Kasich

Let the Democrates go on making its case for more government control over every aspect of our lives. More taxes to pay.…

— Paul Ryan

Looking back, if I had to live my life over, there are things I would do differently, but the one thing I…

— Ted Turner

Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage…

— Henri Lefebvre

Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming…

— Astra Taylor

Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the…

— Sam Harris

We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads…

— Matt Taibbi

An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great…

— Randall Jarrell

With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine,…

— Ada Lovelace

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

— Diana Nyad

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

— Margaret Mead

We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.

— Alma Adams

I came to this office to solve problems and not pass them on to future presidents and future generations.

— George W. Bush

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

— John Ruskin

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" --

— Anonymous

“Strong GenerationS Churches do not fight tomorrow’s war with yesterday’s strategies.”

— Tan Seow How