Generations Quotes

3253 quotes by 2306 authors

If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend… — Hannah Arendt
We may be the generation that sees Armageddon. — Ronald Reagan
We have before us the opportunity to forge, for ourselves and for future generations, a New World Order. A world where the rule of law,… — George H. W. Bush
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard. — Sol LeWitt
For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from… — George McGovern
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men. — Amy Lowell
Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and… — Rush Limbaugh
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of… — Samuel Beckett
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there… — Robert Louis Stevenson
O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations. — Saint Boniface
Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is,… — Jane Jacobs
My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering. — Joy Harjo
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not… — Petrarch
Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how… — Malcolm X
Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth,… — Cesar Chavez
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. — Anthony Kennedy
For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our Founding Fathers. They set forth principles that have endured… — Sonia Sotomayor
I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting… — Meg Whitman

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