Generations Quotes

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Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders — Enrique Pena Nieto
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon… — Alexander Herzen
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the… — Loren Eiseley
...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work… — J. Paul Getty
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic… — Joshua L. Liebman
Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world. — Dan Pallotta
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. — Henri Matisse
No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation. — Thomas Jefferson
The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had no… — Percy Williams Bridgman
It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years,… — Mary McAleese
I donâ€™t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did. — Ai Weiwei
I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave… — Julian Casablancas
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks… — Clay Shirky
The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this… — Richard J. Foster
I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation. — Jack Steinberger
I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and… — Clifford Sifton
President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it, — Sally Jewell
I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I… — Caroline Kennedy
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other...consequently the information… — Edward S. Curtis
Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it? — Meridel Le Sueur

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