Generations Quotes

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If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every generation needs a new revolution. — Thomas Jefferson
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are… — Albert Einstein
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,… — H. L. Mencken
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something… — Lee Iacocca
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled,… — Linda Grant
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary.… — Camille Paglia
The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come. — Sandra Day O'Connor
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice… — Laurie Colwin
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought… — Ronald Reagan
Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service ... I've seen… — Barack Obama
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin
Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting… — Loren Eiseley
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women,… — G. M. Trevelyan
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization… — Will Durant
Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way. — Robin G. Collingwood
Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with… — Edmund Burke
With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to… — Mark Zuckerberg
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired… — Theodore Roosevelt
We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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