Generations Quotes

3253 Generations quotes by 2229 unique authors

When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by… — Charles Galton Darwin
If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A chaste generation would restore Paradise. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our… — Winston Churchill
Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On… — Marvin Minsky
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been… — C.S. Lewis
The Evangelistic Harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men and of nations is always being decided. Every generation is strategic. We are not responsible… — Billy Graham
Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw. — Susan B. Anthony
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of… — Hartley Coleridge
Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We… — John Dos Passos
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. — John Dos Passos
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be… — John Dos Passos
It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are… — Ulysses S. Grant
If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We… — Billy Bob Thornton
We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous… — Billy Bob Thornton
It's actually quite common for presidents to believe that future generations will render a verdict on their presidencies that is more lasting or definitive than… — David Greenberg
Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something… — Paul Solman
I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls… — Elvis Costello
Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of… — Billy Bob Thornton
Everyone with the new generation is about the social network and YouTube, so if you put a proper version of what it should ideally be,… — Kerry Ellis

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