Generations Quote by August Heckscher

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

— Thomas Jefferson

“No past experience, however rich, and no historical research, however thorough, can save the living generation the creative task of finding their own answers…

— Alexander Gerschenkron

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is the present living generation that gives character and spirit to the next. Hence the paramount importance of accomplished and energetic teachers in…

— Alexander Campbell

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the…

— Shane Claiborne

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so…

— Charles Stross

It's sad that as crushed Millennials we live in the shadow of our parents, our fathers. We aren't willing to murder our government. It's…

— Cody Wilson

“Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those…

— Margaret Mitchell

To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing. If we…

— Tara Brach

In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless…

— Frank Pittman

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used…

— Max Anders

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

— Elizabeth Janeway