Generations Quotes · Page 41

I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.

— Jean Dujardin

Providing the tools for a great start in life will yield dividends for generations to come.

— Kay Ivey

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

— Henry David Thoreau

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

— Laurence J. Peter

Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.

— Goran Ivanisevic

A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.

— Scott D. Anthony

I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.

— Nastia Liukin

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

— Jewell Parker Rhodes

I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems…

— Eric Foner

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good…

— Gabrielle Giffords

It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and…

— Francisco J. Ayala

The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so…

— Leon Jaworski

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the…

— John Kasich

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

— James Lee Burke

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change…

— William James

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of…

— James Russell Lowell

The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a…

— Ed Miliband

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other…

— Jean Piaget

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met…

— Alexis Denisof

I was raised in that generation where it was all 'Women can have it all!' and I don't think you can. I…

— Drew Barrymore

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs…

— H. Rider Haggard

I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the…

— Tim Costello

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who…

— Viktor E. Frankl

The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future…

— Al Gore

I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this…

— Gerald R. Ford

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now…

— John F. Kennedy

Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against…

— Alan Moore

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may…

— Thomas Paine

The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be…

— John Adams

You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how…

— Joseph Campbell

I still feel my generation is split on their attitudes.

— Garrett Clayton

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

— Jewel

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

— Peter Mandelson

“Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.”

— Timothy Snyder

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

— Max Hastings

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

— Eric Jerome Dickey

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

— Linda Chavez

Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time

— Anonymous