Generations 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
But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a… — Donald James
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
In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant… — Anne Bogart
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. — Haim Ginott
We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them… — Louis Bacon
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
...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in… — Kofi Annan
In every Indigenous community I've been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they do want development, but they want it on their own… — Rebecca Adamson
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
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration… — Ouida
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

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