Generations Quotes

3253 Generations quotes by 2229 unique authors

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular. — Emile Durkheim
I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation. — Dick Van Dyke
I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me,… — Dick Van Dyke
I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation. — Bob Dylan
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce… — Bruce Feiler
It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was… — Lupe Fiasco
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A generation of children has been betrayed. — William Hague
I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. — Knut Hamsun
But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought… — Tom Hanks
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else.… — Tom Hanks
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be… — Garrett Hardin
I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation. — Angie Harmon
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current… — Mark Helprin
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita… — Keith Henson
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive… — Keith Henson
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and… — Tom Hiddleston
A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be… — Jonah Hill

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