Generations Quotes

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Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations. — Michael Beschloss
I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what… — Julien Temple
Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe, — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections. — Abraham Lincoln
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even… — Nikki Giovanni
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. — James Russell Lowell
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the… — Joseph Addison
You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose… — Oscar Wilde
I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — William Blake
When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the… — Eleanor Roosevelt
For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of… — John Burroughs
Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future… — Dalai Lama
We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership — William J. Clinton
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral — Ulysses S. Grant
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient… — John Keats
I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has… — Gerald Stanley Lee
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation. — Gertrude Stein
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation. — Mukesh Ambani

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