Generation Quotes

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A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for… — James Freeman Clarke
There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side. — Jean Chretien
There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I… — H.G. Wells
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could… — I. Bernard Cohen
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. — E L Doctorow
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. — Haim Ginott
I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We… — Thomas Jefferson
"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its… — Philip Caputo
Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people vote these days,… — John Diamond
Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau… — Ellison Onizuka
It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down… — John F. Kennedy
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their… — Alfred Adler
When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was… — Roger Bannister
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. — Ronald Reagan
There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but… — Carl Linnaeus
This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life.… — Fritjof Capra
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the… — Alfred Russel Wallace
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. — George Bernard Shaw

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