Generations Quotes

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Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in… — Plato
You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the world. And the… — L. Ron Hubbard
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. — Victor Hugo
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this… — Nelson Mandela
Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation. — Don Tapscott
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations. — Loretta Lynch
Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge… — John F. Kennedy
We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are. — Maria Montessori
I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the… — Karl Lagerfeld
I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed,… — Klemens von Metternich
This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking… — Kiran Desai
If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations… — Richard Dawkins
The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more. — Tom Petty
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own. — Pope Benedict XVI
History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself. — Geoffrey Ward
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether… — Theodore White
George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of… — Howard Zinn
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. — Max Beerbohm
Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from. — Sam Ewing

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