Generations Quotes

3253 Generations quotes by 2229 unique authors

It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to… — Richard M. Nixon
Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin… — Ronald Reagan
Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of… — Nikos Kazantzakis
The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object.… — Henry David Thoreau
But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and… — Henry David Thoreau
A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man. — Henry Ford II
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,… — William Butler Yeats
Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years he… — Garry Kasparov
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. — Arthur Peacocke
A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you… — Peter Mayhew
A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from… — Alexander Herzen
You know, I come from six generations of college graduates. — Julian Bond
When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a… — David Amram
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and… — Elijah Cummings
I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop,… — Mike Rutherford
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of… — Alberto Moravia
I was raised in that generation where it was all 'Women can have it all!' and I don't think you can. I think something falls… — Drew Barrymore
Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural -… — Gerhard Richter
I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably… — Winston Churchill
And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create and… — Barack Obama
The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must… — Barack Obama
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book… — Thom Gunn
Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute… — Tony Blair
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the… — Samuel Johnson
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be… — Russell Kirk

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