Generations Quotes · Page 7

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

— Grace Paley

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

— Wilfrid Sheed

Every generation is equidistant from God.

— Leopold von Ranke

Future generation is the most important thing.

— Confucius

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.

— Alexandra Patsavas

A generation of children has been betrayed.

— William Hague

We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.

— Billy Corgan

It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again.

— Ted Cruz

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

— R. C. Sproul

“I lay on my back, feeling as if more than the womb had been taken out.”

— Gayl Jones

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

— Michael Jackson

History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.

— Nelson Mandela

“Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.”

— J. Valor

It does seem like between the groundbreaking writing of Edmund White's generation and the work of younger gay writers in their twenties…

— Garth Greenwell

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who…

— Ron Paul

I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies…

— Marco Rubio

I think my generation has grown up knowing that you don't pay attention to trolls because trollin's what they do.

— Kevin Biegel

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members…

— Katherine Anne Porter

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

— Gordon Brown

We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a…

— Jack Wagner

We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait…

— Blake Mycoskie

What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so…

— Marina Sirtis

It is critically important that Iran should not develop nuclear weapons. And that the necessary interventions need to be made by the…

— Thabo Mbeki

Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving…

— Elizabeth Noble

“I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.…

— Lorraine Hansberry

If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize…

— Winston Churchill

There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading…

— Paul Goodman

There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have…

— George Eliot

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the…

— Winston Churchill

Marriage and parenting are the two strongest vows anyone will ever make. When you see these commitments being carelessly discarded, you can…

— Larry Burkett

The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn -…

— Daniel Fried

Finding balance in life is perhaps the greatest challenge of this generation, especially for women. I've decided that I need to compartmentalize…

— Dayna Devon

I belong to a generation that had so many choices available. In 1970, when [former premier Robert] Bourassa launched the James Bay…

— Philippe Couillard

The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland.…

— James Connolly

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just…

— Sinclair Lewis