Generations Quotes · Page 40

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

— Annie Dillard

I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.

— Mark Pocan

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

— Stephen Sondheim

“Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting future generations.”

— Steven Magee

The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.

— Albert Einstein

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

— Robin G. Collingwood

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

— Isaac Hanson

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

— Malala Yousafzai

Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist…

— Berry Gordy

Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for…

— Allen Ginsberg

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers…

— Stark Sands

In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.

— Lynn Nottage

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where…

— Bertrand Russell

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced…

— David Mamet

You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.

— Nicole Kidman

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

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

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

— Tom Hanks

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

— Malcolm Fraser

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

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

And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal,…

— James Agee

Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's…

— Martin Amis

From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is…

— Nikola Tesla

I believe we're at the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world. But Washington is holding us back.…

— Jeb Bush

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

— Paul Kagame

One thing is funny because my grandparents are going to come see the show and my mom was concerned that they wouldn't…

— Sarah Steele

. . . what humanity most desperately needs is not the creation of new worlds but the recreation in terms of human…

— Archibald MacLeish

Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

— Camille Paglia

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

— Martin Sheen

I'm proud to be part of a generation where reading is a 'look.'

— Marc Maron

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

— James Blunt

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

— Christine Keeler

Never forget that your role as a leader is to be a steward for future generations.

— Marilyn C. Nelson

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.

— Henri Poincare